[Avodah] Kaddish Question

[Rich, Joel]

The Chavos Yair wrote that seems to be the first sh"ut on women saying kaddish.  He lived in the 1600's. IIUC it's generally assumed that the saying of kaddish by yatom was in response to the crusades (100's of years earlier)
Any insights on the reason it took so long for the question to come up?
KT
Joel Rich

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