Reply To: Safek if counted during the day.

His second reason is that they don’t understand hebrew, and thus don’t understand what they are counting. So you are correct that would not apply to women who do know hebrew. Yet, you will notice that although there were many women then who did know hebrew, he doesn’t say that they should make a bracha.

His first reason is that they will probably miss a day. I don’t know why that would have changed. I think that most people mess up even now, and probably more women than men because they don’t go to maariv.

My reasons were given to speculate why women who are going to mess up don’t say a bracha, while men who know that they mess up every year still make a bracha. That is not explicit there.