Not every element exists in the GIRM, which itself never needed to exist before the New Mass.
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It [cassock/surplice] is loaned to Altar boys as a clerical garment. It is thus a male garment. **
lets not get into semantics about this. Altar boys fill in the role of an Instituted/ordained acolyte, which are the only ones who have a RIGHT to serve on the Altar. Altar boys do therefore imitate/fill in for this office because of the lack of Instituted/ordained acolytes - therefore the wearing of the cassock and surplice (and in some places the roman collar also) can be said to be by Indult.
Its common sense women should not wear Cassocks - they can never attain the office of acolyte or become clerics.