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“I closed down the comments on that entry when I saw that some people just weren’t getting the point.”

I’m not sure I get Fr. Z’s point, myself.

I think he's in error here: "What is in question here is the whole design of God for man and woman as complementary head and heart of the family. Teaching of a public kind is a function primarily of the reason, or head, just as teaching in the home is as much a function of the heart."

This man=head woman=heart thing is not Christian; it's Victorian. There are some intellective and emotional tendencies which are typical of men and woman (the most markedly "masculine" types are more analytical, the most markedly "feminine" types more empathetic); but, that said, the majority of men and woman are much more like each other than they are to the extremes on the bell-curve of their own sex.

God gave both sexes heads and hearts, after all. It's not like we were different species.

And I do think Our Lord's parable of the talents applies here: if you've got a talent, woe to you if you bury it. Your Master expects you to make something of it.

BTW, I love the women Doctors and hope they will add St. Edith Stein (Teresia Benedicta a Cruce.).