[Alex]

Where does the ruling that Friday congregation is mandatory for men but optional for women come from? Is it from the Qur'an or Sunnah?

[Elissetecausa]

for women:

http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.a...=4423&CATE=122

fiqh of friday prayer:
http://spa.qibla.com/issue_view.asp?HD=1&ID=1001&CATE=4

the friday prayer:
http://spa.qibla.com/issue_view.asp?...=1598&CATE=239

friday prayer fard or sunnah?
http://seekersguidance.org/ans-blog/...ard-or-sunnah/

virtues of fri. prayer:
http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=443

I see that you are from Canada.

Keep in contact with Shaykh Yusuf Badat @ GTA,
http://www.mathabah.org/

and shaykh faraz near gta:
seekersguidance.org

^ he has started a seekersdigest thing or something, that holds dars in spirituality etc,.

If you're not near them, then I can direct you some good scholars in BC or in Montreal.

[Alex]

Does it come directly from the Qurʾān or Sunnah that it's mandatory for men and optional for women? Or is that something that later scholars established by consensus?