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The reason women can’t count in a minyan is that minyan is a tikun for the aveirah of the meraglim, and the meraglim were men. But women who participate in minyanim should not be viewed as “useless”, insignificant, or peripheral. Hashem hears the prayer of the tzibur as a whole.

Incidentally, rebdoniel, I don’t know how it is in your shul, but in my shul it is always a woman who sets up and cleans up the kiddush, regardless of who sponsors it.