In that Moravian source you posted I found this paragraph:
What were the responsibilities of ordained women in the early Moravian Church? Ordained women were allowed to perform pastoral services within their respective choirs and to give an address in meetings with only women present; they also assisted in the distribution of Holy Communion, and some of them (the so-called archdeaconesses) even performed ordinations of other women. The office of the archdeaconess came closest to that of a male bishop. Although the women’s responsibilities were confined to the female realm and therefore not equal to those of their male counterparts, their roles were quite extraordinary when compared to other groups of the time.
I would hardly call this controversial. The women were allowed to pastor to all women choirs. Horrors! They helped pass out Communion - which in the Moravian church meant standing in the aisle and passing the plate to the next row of pews when it came to you. Their responsibilities were confined to the "female realm." My, they are truly going to hell...
“I was raised Moravian and they were as pretty straight-laced, conservative and boring as they come.”
Were.
While I know the history of the Moravian Church, my exposure has primarily been around Christmas and Easter. The only titled role of women within that church that I’d encountered was that of Diener. Of course, I’m male and not Moravian, just Moravian descended in an area where Moravians played a major historical role. I suppose it’s only logical that I wouldn’t have experienced the leadership of the women’s choirs, a choir being much more than just singing there. I’ve helped clean grave markers for Easter that are Moravian in a church that became Lutheran over the centuries, though, and I do know men, women and children were buried in choirs.