text: Who raised the children and taught them about the faith?  Hardly the men.  Listen to many people today speaking about who grounded them in their faith.  Dad was hardly around.  If women can and DID do that---there is NOTHING that would impede them from serving the Church today as they have.  ONLY---women aren't going to sit around and wait while the hierarchy sits and mulls and sits and mulls over 'allowing' them to do what they've done over the centuries.  I know many men who feel this same way as well.  Let the laity realized their God-given gifts.
  
  Secondly---tradition did not come pre-packed!  It occurred over several centuries.  Not all at one time.  And often the so-called traditions were often formed because of political issues of the times---not because of any teaching of Jesus.  One example is the College of Cardinals---this was created by a pope---to protect his authority---had nothing to do with Jesus establishing it.