Halakhah for Berakhot 7:2

נָשִׁים וַעֲבָדִים וּקְטַנִּים, אֵין מְזַמְּנִין עֲלֵיהֶם. עַד כַּמָּה מְזַמְּנִין, עַד כַּזָּיִת. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, עַד כַּבֵּיצָה:

Women and minors are not counted in a zimun. [Only minors who do not know to whom they are blessing; but a minor who does know is counted in a zimun. And there are some of our rabbis who say that they said this ("a minor who does know, etc.") only in respect to a boy aged thirteen years and one day, who did not yet develop two (pubic) hairs, such a boy being called "katan poreach" (see Berachoth 47b); but a younger boy is not counted for a zimun even if he does know to whom he is blessing. And in Yerushalmi they state as halachah that a minor is not counted for a zimun at all, until he becomes an adult (i.e., thirteen) and shows two hairs. Women form a zimun for themselves and bondsmen for themselves, but not together, because of (apprehension of) promiscuity.] What is the (minimum) amount (of food) required for a zimun? An olive-size. [This is the halachah, and not as R. Yehudah says.] R. Yehudah says: An egg-size.

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