Should women hold authority in the Church, and what about the push for deaconesses?

I agree that the rise of women holding authoritative positions has done the Church no good. Today you can call a chancery and reach a woman who is chancellor, the highest position under the bishop; you find women as deans, CEOs, judges, and on the Supreme Court. But Paul says in 1 Timothy 2:11 to 15 that he does not permit a woman to have authority over men, and that she is to be silent. That silence, using the sense behind the Greek, is not only vocal silence but a posture of repose and humility, letting the man be the authority. And Paul grounds it not in the culture of his day but in the order of creation: Adam was formed first, and Eve was first deceived, so on both counts Adam has the authority. He says the same in 1 Corinthians 14:33 to 37, where he tells women to keep silent in the churches as the law also says, and calls these the commandments of the Lord, information he received directly from Christ. Modern churchmen dismiss all this as merely Paul's cultural opinion, or claim Scripture is only inspired where it deals with salvation, which is a novelty the Church never taught. As for deaconesses, a woman can be a deaconess in the sense of a servant, like Phoebe in Romans 16, but with no authority, because even the deacons, the men chosen in Acts 6 to serve tables, had no authority; only the bishops and priests did. The second-century Church had such deaconesses without authority, and if we had kept to that we would have no problem today.