There are more than 98 years involved here ... The White Tower construction began in 98 AB, but it the WT and what we know as AS now took centuries to evolve. Not to mention the several centuries the a breaking lasted. The Warder Bonding could seems like the type of innovation a woman would come up with in those days.

Inverting is actually extremely useful for a woman fighting men as masking the ability and inverting weaves keeps,a man from getting the goose bumps that give men a sense of women channeling.