Yes! This is the crucial point. 

The concept of Tradition is central to Catholicism, IMHO, but it is an utter abuse of the concept to argue that what we did in the past is the sole norm for what we can do in the future. The fact is that Tradition is inherently evolutionary...it has always changed. Indeed the powerful insistence on Tradition + Scripture (vs Sola Scriptura) at and after Trent was precisely to justify theology and practices NOT directly evident in scripture. Ergo, beyond scripture, there is change.

So, in scripture we have Jesus violating the conventions of his time in relationship to women, and although this may have continued in the very earliest Church, rapidly the shared Hebrew, Greek, and Roman culture of male leadership settled in as the natural way the universe is designed.

God know it took us a long time to grasp male/female equivalence, but we are there now. The Spirit's pull is clear; resistance is ULTIMATELY futile. Until then, chauvinism and pain reign.