Priestly ordination is required for consecrating the Eucharist, from which all other ministries derive.  Episcopal ordination is  required to ordain other priests  for apostolic succession.  As long as priestly ordination is denied to women, all other "remedies" to patriarchal clericalism are exercises in window dressing.  Priests can be celibate or married, part time or full time, etc, etc, etc... but as long as they can only be male, the Church remains patriarchally dysfunctional and increasingly  irrelevant in a post-patriarchal world.  I believe in my heart that the ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate is the key pastoral issue facing the Church today, and engaging in other distractions merely prolongs the agony.