Women in this particular clerical order will not help much.  Women are needed and have been needed since the beginning of the church as an institution, but reform of what and who the clergy are should come first and yes as part of that reform, women should be able to have any authority men do.  The idea that there is any "settled dogma" at all is simply plain wrong thinking.  To paraphrase both Einstein and Aristotle, the more we learn, the more there is to learn.  This is true of science and theology.  Not even the great work of Newton and Freud , though both should be studied and understood are settled science.  This is so for the works of Aquinas JP II and all the "Doctors of the Church."  The Holy Spirt will be with us until the end of time.  We should pay attention to the great thinkers of the past but use them only as stepping stones to learn more.  The leadership of our church with its supposed infallibility and "settled doctrine is quite problematic.  Let the Spirit IN!!