Doug,

I'm not sure who this post addressing and to what you are addressing it to.
I'm assuming you mean women teaching in the church.  The Bible clearly
forbids women from teaching men in the gathered assembly of the church.  (1
Cor14:34-37; 1 Tim 11:15).  There is no degrading going on here.  This
prohibition is not an absolute forbidding of women teaching in every
situation.  The Bible no where teaches that women are not smart enough to
teach, or that somehow, they are more suspectible to error (as is sometimes
reasoned from 1Tim2:14).  There are many situations where it is appropriate
for women who are good teachers and should  be teachers.  Such as in
universities or other non gathered assembly type situations.  Women who
actually have the spiritual gift of teaching should use their gift in the
church in areas such as children ministries or teaching ministries to other
women.

Carlo