Kay

“God’s word transcend time and culture. Just because women roles have changed in the world does not mean they change in the Body of Christ. It is apparent that the church has been influenced by the world, because of this debate.”
Ramon,
It appears you may have fallen for the myth of the stay-at-home-mother/father as sole bread winner as being the original Biblical model.
From the history I’ve read, the notion that women stay at home with their main purpose being to raise children and tend to them for all their physical needs until they were on their own, came about only after the Industrial Revolution when men started going off to work somewhere other than on the family farm or in their own cottage industry. Prior to that fathers had a major role in raising children, especially sons, who had reached an age where they were capable of helping him in his work. In the same way the daughters would help their mother in her work. Because for both sexes, that would be the work they could expect to be doing for the rest of their lives. These sorts of divisions of labor are cultural and economic responses related to the need to survive. Cultural practices change for various reasons -note the Prov. 31 woman was also a business woman who considered a field and bought it on her own, and planted a vineyard with her own earnings. She could bring home the bacon AND fry it (or have her servants cook it) and they still called her blessed. The industrious woman of Proverbs 31 was a manager, business owner, and real estate agent.
Cheryl, nor others commenting here argue for a genderless society.
Of course there are gender differences designed by God – only women can bear/nurse children and only men can impregnate women. But how does any of this apply to leadership in church or home? Both genders have advantages and disadvantages over the other, a mutual effort offers the best of both, including access to insights the other may not have. It was not good that the “adam” should be alone. That was the only aspect of creation that was not good. The woman’s ‘help’ was to allay the aloneness of the human and to be his equal. She was the “ezer kenegdo” meaning “strong help that would stand facing him.” Adam’s “bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh” affirms “mutuality” evident in the way that humanity functions. As long as one depends on someone else for the actualization of one’s totality, that dependence creates equality of purpose that transcends status.