That is a very strange attitude that respect and dignity for women is of lesser importance. Nothing is more important than following the command of Jesus to love your neighbor as yourself. Have you considered that in those places where people are starving, those are the places where women have no birth control, little education, second class status, etc. The status of women there is a cause of that poverty and starvation. It is going to take a long time? Better get started then. It should be important to you to have a Church that is not at variance with the New Testament. Protestants have women priests and women ministers and did not find it to be of lesser importance.