For me, the central issue is the hotly debated texts from Paul (in 1 Corinthians 11 and 14, and 1 Timothy 2), which seem as directives applicable only to the specific problems in Corinth and Ephesus at the time.  We would never attempt to place a female Pastor in the Adventist church in Tehran (if we still have a church in Tehran!)   There are situations that culturally inappropriate for many things that are not inherently unbiblical, but just not smart for the furtherance of the Gospel.

As has been stated many times here, Paul’s actually theology on this is that there is neither slave nor free, nor Jew nor Gentile or male or female in Christianity. 
Paul’s actually preference was as Jesus’, men and women both working in ministry.