Ok. Thanks, Bhante... 

Just had the chance to meet Rod a few weeks ago here in Taiwan, and spent a very pleasant couple of hours with him and a few other visiting scholars. Super nice man...

With apologies for my lack of thoroughness, here's another Pali reference to that passage at AN 1.279-283:  “It is impossible and inconceivable, bhikkhus, that a woman could be an arahant who is a perfectly enlightened Buddha … (280) … that a woman could be a wheel-turning monarch … (281) … that a woman could occupy the position of Sakka … (282) … that a woman could occupy the position of Māra … (283) … that a woman could occupy the position of Brahmā; there is no such possibility. But it is possible that a man could occupy the position of Brahmā; there is such a possibility.”