Some explain that women tend to be more careful about maintaining personal cleanliness while eating; meticulously using cutlery, etc., and therefore need not wash their hands for mayim achronim. Others add that nowadays, with the absence of Sodomite salt, Mayim Achronim is merely a custom, and not required by law. Thus this custom is only binding on those who accepted it, which the women did not (Mor U’kitzia; Responsa Shevet Halevi).
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