Yes.
Muslims relegate women to a back room off the main mosque, Catholics are more subtle but the message is similar: women don't count as much as men. Recently, for example, word came down from Rome that altar girls were no longer permissible. Another tiny dagger in my lifelong night of long knives. I'd only considered returning to the church after being touched to the core by seeing devout and lovely little girls serving mass. Maybe the church had a place for me. Quickly disabused (!) of that notion.
Very orthodox Jewish temples pull the same stuff, with women seated away from the main floor. Not a tremendous amount of support (care and feeding of my spirit) for me on the traditional paths, not a tremendous amount of intellectual satisfaction in nontraditional churches. My best bet: charismatic nondenominational churches, where the Holy Spirit thrives and people are free to participate fully.
http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/CN/03/031021.htm
Altar girls are to keep the backing of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, it has emerged at a meeting at the Vatican.
Unfortunately, you're hinging your return on something totally ephemeral when you SHOULD be thinking more of the Sacrifice of the Mass, and the reception of the Body and Blood of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.
The gender of the extraneous people on the altar should not be more important than the mystery of the Real Presence. As for the angelic little girls on the altar, give me a break. Half the little girls serving look as bored as half the little boys do. I have noticed something interesting, however. The more girls sign up for altar service, the fewer boys do. The boys begin to see it as a 'girl thing', and that is unfortunate. We need young men to be close to the altar performing service. This is a wonderful way for young men to be open to the vocation of Priesthood. I know that's why some folks were pushing for little girls to be there; they wanted to push the idea of women priests, but that ain't gonna happen.
And I cheered at this.