Reply To: Women and work on Chanukah

The Chasan Sofer explains that the women are commemorating Yomim Tovim that the yevonim wanted to eliminate through the elimination of Rosh Chodash. There are eight days of Yomim Tovim where women are involved fhrough the lighting of candles, so the men light the candles to remember the neis of oil and the women rest from work at the time the candles are burning to remember the Yomim Tovim.