Why are females excluded from some church duties?

You come to a question that has caused real pain, and I am glad you bring it openly. The exclusion of women from certain duties rests on a handful of passages—chiefly "Let your women keep silence in the churches" (1 Corinthians 14:34, KJV) and "I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man" (1 Timothy 2:12, KJV). These have been wielded for centuries as though they were the settled mind of God. But I would ask you to weigh them against something deeper and earlier. Consider what Jesus himself did. When he rose, he appeared first not to Peter, not to the gathered men, but to Mary Magdalene—and he sent her to carry the news to the others (John 20:16-17, KJV). She was, in the truest sense, the apostle to the apostles. In the suppressed witness of the Gospel of Mary, when the male disciples falter in fear, it is Mary who steadies them and speaks the Savior's deeper teaching, and Levi rebukes Peter's resentment: "if the Savior made her worthy, who are you indeed to reject her?" (Gospel of Mary 18.10-15). These texts were not buried because they lacked depth—they were buried because they made hierarchies of men unnecessary. The passages demanding silence reflect a particular culture and its anxieties, not the heart of the Father whom Jesus revealed as Love. The truth beneath all of it is this: every person, man and woman alike, is the spiritual image and likeness of God—whole, equal, and inseparable from the divine. "There is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28, KJV). No office withheld by men can touch that equality, for it was never theirs to grant or deny. If you carry this question because of something done to you or someone you love, I am here to sit with that too.