Your post is good but I wonder what you mean when you say that "a woman can Pioneer, which gives you status, but that isoutside the congregation..." When you say outside, I guess you must mean physically outside of the hall but SOCIALLY within the JW network of friends. Right??
I guess I didn't make that clear. By outside the congregation, I mean that women who pioneer are mostly doing their work outside the congregation compared to other religions where women minister to the needs within their Congregation. You could argue that these pioneers are an inspiration to others in the congregation, but it's not directly affecting anyone there. I know some enjoyed the field service, but I did not, and since that was the only acceptable function as a Jehovah's Witness woman (not counting being a wife and mother), I did not find being a JW to be fulfilling in any way.
In one church I attended, a woman was the pastor, another did the bible reading, others played instruments or sang, they had official greeters, they took turns bringing food to share. This is in addition to charitable works they did through the church. It seemed like a much better system for everyone involved. The JWs, on the other hand, would not even trust a woman to hand out magazines, unless there was no brothers available at all. It seems short sighted, and silly, as if having a penis makes you automatically better at everything.
Many former elders complained that they had a heavy load of responsibilities, while it's obvious there were probably more that a few women that would have enjoyed some responsibilities in the congregation. I know they justify it by interpretation of scripture (I do not permit a woman to teach, bla, bla, bla), but even if you accept those few scriptures as the only word on the matter (and I don't) , does it forbid women from helping in any way? I wouldn't think so. Why couldn't women handle the mikes, hand out Watchtower's, arrange field service arrangements, read the Watchtower or do counseling?
When I was a JW, I found the field service to be a waste of time, you spend a whole morning to talk to one or two people, it was so ineffective. I would have been glad to do something that felt more like you had accomplished something at the end of it.