There was ONE useful and maybe positive element in the 2004 revival of the traditional exclusion and diminution of women document "promulgated" by J.Card. Ratzinger as CDF Prefect and with the blessing of Pope John Paul II.  It called for, or offered to be an opening position for a discussion on the "...collaboration of men and women in the church and in the world". 
Sure, the reflection of women as deacons might be enlightening in a periferal way, but....
It would be beneficial to all of our Church and it would be reflective of a truly conservative traditionalist curial head and future Pope, to reflect and act upon this invitiation. 
With a contemporary Pope who seems to be a bridge, a "pontifex" between the old and new,  open to question and wonder of the Spirit, wouldn't it be timely, proper and propitious to revive this invitation and call upon the Vatican to respond?