It's going to be a bit difficult for a future pope to ordain women when hundreds of his predecessors have said they do not have the authority from Christ to do so.
Is he going to say, "... it's ok, the Holy Ghost just told me He is fine by it now?"
Pope Francis was your best bet but even he said, "the door was closed here." You won't even get deaconesses never mind female deacons out of him.
The Church by it's very nature is patriarchal, that cannot change.