Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Kiddushin 69:19

Peninei Halakhah, Women's Prayer

As a rule, there is equality between the sexes. Men and women are all created in the divine image, and the uniqueness of the Jewish people inheres in Jewish women and men alike. The Torah was given to all Israel, men and women alike (see below, 7:1). The Sages derive from the verse “These are the laws that you must set before them” (Shemot 21:1) that “The Torah equated woman to man concerning all the laws in the Torah” (Kiddushin 35a).
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Sefer HaChinukh

And [it] is practiced in every place and at all times by males and females. And even though rest on the festival is from the positive commandments determined by time - since there is also the prohibition of a negative commandment in the doing of work, women are liable for it from the principle that is in our hands (Kiddushin 35a): "'A man or a woman, if they do from any of the sins of a person' (Numbers 5:6) - the verse equated a man and a woman for all of the punishments in the Torah." And one who transgresses it and did work on this day has violated a positive commandment, besides that he violated a negative commandment, as we shall write in this Order (Sefer HaChinukh 323) with God's help.
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