Avenary, Hanoch; Millen, Rochelle (2007). Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). "Kaddish". Encyclopedia Judaica (2 ed.). Gale Virtual Reference Library. pp. 695–698. Archived from the original on 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2019-02-28.[dead link]
After a cholera plague in 1831, there were so many mourners that the original custom would not allow them to say kaddish with any frequency, so Rabbi Akiva Eger allowed them to recite Kaddish together. Over time, this practice became the Ashkenazi norm. See Rov in a time of choleraArchived 2020-04-20 at the Wayback Machine. Other communities, most notably the community of Frankfurt am Main, maintained the original practice.
Ahron Soloveichik, Od Yosef Yisrael Beni Hai, page 99-100Archived 2022-05-01 at the Wayback Machine. His formulation is that we surely should not stop a woman from saying Kaddish, but he does not encourage the practice.
After a cholera plague in 1831, there were so many mourners that the original custom would not allow them to say kaddish with any frequency, so Rabbi Akiva Eger allowed them to recite Kaddish together. Over time, this practice became the Ashkenazi norm. See Rov in a time of choleraArchived 2020-04-20 at the Wayback Machine. Other communities, most notably the community of Frankfurt am Main, maintained the original practice.
Ahron Soloveichik, Od Yosef Yisrael Beni Hai, page 99-100Archived 2022-05-01 at the Wayback Machine. His formulation is that we surely should not stop a woman from saying Kaddish, but he does not encourage the practice.
Avenary, Hanoch; Millen, Rochelle (2007). Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). "Kaddish". Encyclopedia Judaica (2 ed.). Gale Virtual Reference Library. pp. 695–698. Archived from the original on 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2019-02-28.[dead link]