The controversial verse is 1 Cor 14:34 - Let your women keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. You need to take this in the cultural context. The Jewish assembly had men and women sitting separately (just like the Ethiopian Orthodox church). Men are atttentively learning (and have been brought up to listen and debate) so that side of the congregation is quiet. The women, however, are not schooled to listen carefully and analyze, so they are asking each other questions for things they could not understand (and of course once you get a woman talking she doesn't stop). So that part of the congregation is noisey and disruptive. Paul is saying to the women, "be quiet in church and ask your husbands later if you don't understand!". When you look at the entire context of how Paul explains gifts (whether men or women) as how Megabe Mikael Tefferra explains, this explanation within the the context of the tradition does not get into conflict, and fully supports women within the church leadership (let's leave this western-world constructed non-biblical called "feminisim" out of it).