Drives me crazy, too.  There is a gulf between the lived experience of women today and the women I think the Catholic PTB's envision when they think of women at all.  I think they still come from a mindset that says women get married and have lots of babies while keeping house or become nuns and, of course, are obedient to some man somewhere.  They don't get what has happened with women since education has become widespread (at least here), having the power to vote and women having careers in which they do compete with men.  

I like the idea of the women's advisory body only as an ice-breaker - some way to get them to start listening to women of today - educated, capable, determined, creative, etc.  And full of expectations.  

I think part of the problem in their recognizing how different things are now is that they will have to rethink so much that they once thought was written in stone.  Too bad.  We are in evolution, not stuck in time.  (I really like Ilia Delio's thinking!).