I am aware of the NT use of a variety of gifts as a description of the variety of those who respond to Jesus' call.

You seem to write off as  those "liberal dissenters" women who fail to see this distinction in roles.  But what would YOU call yourself if you were in the shoes of many of the women you would lump into this group, who was certain of her vocation in the Church, and the Church won't even test that vocation?  From the perspective of women in this position, it is not that there are distinctions in roles, but that for arbitrary reasons, some people are denied even the opportunity to test that vocation.  Maybe women are wrong--but what if they are not?  In a church dying from lack of people to fill the roles of pastor/priest of a parish, there are whole categories of people rejected without any evaluation of their sincerely held feelings, or beliefs.  The church on one hand says come, follow Jesus in the role of priest, and on the other says:  oh, but not you.

Pr Chris