Thank you SC for your post and I agree that:
"Not that power is what is being sought, but because a talent and a gift seek ways of being fulfilled and gender shouldn't imo prevent this."

This seems to me a very serious instruction in Romans 12 & 1Cor 12, especially in our generation when women in, western society are offered such extreme freedom comparatively. I heard one missionary/ evangelist/preacher say ( Dr. Daisy Osborn), “ladies, when you stand before God, you won’t be called “Mrs. Anybody,” You will be called by your own name and held responsible for your own obedient or disobedient action before the throne of God. I took those words very seriously and it has changed my attitude and actions about a lot of things. I want to hear the words “Good and Faithful” in my ears.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ. 1Cor 12;12

Dr Gilbert Bilezikian, NT Prof at Wheaton College and co-founder of Willow Creek Community Church states: Expect and demand to utilize your spiritual gifts without hindrance within the context of Community. Each Christian is directly accountable to God for his or her acceptance of salvation. Likewise, each Christian is directly accountable to God for his or her use of Spiritual gifts in the work of the kingdom. Sighting Matt. 25:14-30, he notes the horrible price paid by the one who hid his gifts and notes that, God will hold each believer individually responsible for failure to invest fully his or her giftedness into ministry. God will question some pastors or Priests about our failure.

It is our personal responsibility to find the environment or place of service where our talents can be invested without hindrance, to the full extent of our gifting. According to Jesus’ parable, excuses will not be tolerated because the work of the kingdom deserves nothing less than totals commitment of all its members. Conversely, abusive institutions (and people) should realize that whenever they choose to stifle Gifts instead of celebrating them, they incur the frightful responsibility of opposing the Holy Spirit, the provider of such gifts (1Cor. 12:7,11)

The God honoring institutional response to God’s bountiful provision to the Church is the acceptance and affirmation of all spiritual gifts – not the rejection and repression.