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I see further down where Mark did explain what he identifies as the “pastoral problem”:

“Also it appears that although women were now allowed to participate along with the men with this gift, they had thus rejected the creation order of male headship. Yes women could now prophecy, but no they should not be dishonouring their husbands with an uncovered head. This is now the root problem Paul is addressing, women who were not being respectful to their ‘head’. It is again another picture of the Corinthians over-realised eschatology. The inauguration of the Kingdom and the gifting of the Spirit did not override God’s creational order and men’s headship…”

Is it an oversimplification to identify the “pastoral problem” as dismissing propriety–married women praying or prophesying with an uncovered head? I see that Mark does identify this as “the root problem” being adressed.