ROME — The Vatican’s extraordinary three-week meeting of bishops from the Amazon region, which ends this weekend , has generated intense debate within the church over the possibility of ordaining older, married men in remote areas.

But those gathered will also make important proposals about the role of the region’s women in the Roman Catholic Church. While a handful of those women have been present for the conversation, as usual, none of them will actually have a say.

That imbalance at the synod, as the meeting is known, has disappointed women from organizations that have been lobbying for the church to give women more decision-making power.

Instead, the decisions will be left to 185 men, who are discussing the possibility of women sharing pastoral responsibilities with priests or even the potential ordination of women deacons, a decision with broad theological implications.