Maybe that's true in YOUR parish, but it has been freely admitted to me by other Orthodox here that not all their women go through their services covered and silent. You are not speaking for all Orthodox churches.
If they are going to keep one custom or law of a desert nomadic tribe, they should keep them all. They should attend synagogue and keep the practices. If they have slaves taken in battle, they should shave her head to keep the wife from getting jealous and after they marry her and go to church with her, she should keep her head covered. They should do away with diapers as well.
Your memory serves you well, FK. Kawaii is correct in raising these issues because we seem to have double standards when it comes to Scripture: if it clashes with popular notions and habits, we go with the notions and habits and dispense with or ignore the Scripture.
Traditional Orthodox churches have women stand on the left and men on the right (my Serbian church does, but women are covered only when they receive communion, and even then not all!).
But if you go to a monastery it is done 'right.' In Serbia, most women are covered. It seems the more 'urban' and trendy (i.e. western) the area the less observant will the women be.
Clearly western Protestantism is the source of this 'abolition' of scriptural prohibition for women to preach in church/public places.
Kawaii is certainly not speaking for all Orthodox churches; there is not a single Orthodox church where even the Divine Liturgy or the church arrangement is exactly the same. :)