Women as Deacons in the CRC

Those who have kept up with the decisions of Reformed church bodies, must be aware that now the Christian Reformed Church can have women ordained as deacons provided "their work is distinguished from that of elders." That last clause is, perhaps deliberately, ambiguous. The work of deacons has ever been distinguished from that of elders -- why make that specification in connection with women deacons? Those who have kept up with the decisions of Reformed church bodies, must be aware that now...