The Staircase Implementation - S3-E22
Character mistake: In 1-14 "The Nerdvana Annihilation", when Howard says they should put the time machine into the elevator, Leonard states the elevator had been broken for two years. But in this episode, we found out the elevator broke seven years earlier. (00:03:10)
Answer: Because Raj's selective mutism seems to be caused by women that Raj sees (on some sort of conscious or subconscious level) as a potential sexual partner. An attribute that wouldn't apply to either his sister or mother.