Paul's command to women in this verse has ruffled more than a few feathers. Perhaps the things that we might need to remember in this verse are: 1. This is not our time. 2. Paul was not trying to solve women's equality, but he certainly mentored his share of important female leaders (Priscilla, Phoebe and Junia to name a few). 3. Pauls' concern in this verse is church order, and that can be accomplished with a bit of social order. Women apparently weren't leaders in this church (but were in others), and this church had its own personality. Perhaps, once order was established so that worship wouldn't become grandstanding, the roles of women might have changed to something more familiar in Paul's other letters.

(For this cycle through Psalms, I am reading from Robert Alter's "Hebrew Bible" translation.