The Baal HaTurim says on the first posuk "V'ata Tetzaveh es Bnei Yisroel" that the Taf from Tetzaveh is begematriah (numeric value of) Nashim women. "You shall command the women" "L'haalos Ner Tamid" . Continues the Baal HaTurim, "Ner Tamid" is begematriah "B'Shabbos", on Shabbos. The Torah hints to us that women are obligated to light Shabbos candles. Why does the Torah hint this message here?

There is another place where the Torah talks about the Menorah, in Parshas B'Ha'ahlosecha. There, Rashi asks why the Parsha of the Menora is next to the Parsha of the Nessi'im (the sacrifices each Prince of Tribe brought for the dedication of the Mishkan)? Rashi explains that when Aharon saw each Prince bringing a dedication for the Mishkan he became distraught. Why weren't he and his tribe able to bring something? HaShem answers, "I promise you, yours is greater than theirs because you will light the candles."

There are two messages in this answer:
1) That the lighting of the candles is great and powerful and
2) That everyone cannot do the same exact thing.

Everyone's mission is not the same. We are all serving the same greater good and purpose. One group's mission doesn't need to mimic another's, but rather they compliment each other. The Kohain and Levi were not going to dedicate the Mishkan in the same way as the other tribes. Lighting the candles is even more powerful. As the Ramban says, it alludes to the Chanukah candles. Out of everything that took place in the Mishkan and Bais HaMikdosh there's only one thing that remains throughout the ages. The lighting of the candles; the Menorah which we use to light Chanukah candles and, adds the Baal HaTurim, the Shabbos candles. Women too, like the Kohanim, get to light the candles. They too have a different purpose and a different mission. And as they may have been concerned that they aren't serving in the Mishkan, they weren't lighting the Menorah or doing other such service, the Torah hints here that they have a higher mission. Just as the Kohanim were the �light� brigade and had an amazing power to bring light unto the dark world, a power which was rekindled by that great family of Kohanim, the Chashmonaim (which all throughout Galus we are able to draw light from), so too the women are charged with the power to bring light unto the world. And just as the Kohanim, who brought us light, didn't do their service the same as the Nesi'im (even the Levi didn't serve the same way as the Kohain), so too the women who bring us light don't serve G-d the same way as the men.

If the Kohain and Levi wouldn't have recognized their distinctive uniqueness and embraced it and used it to empower themselves for Klal Yisroel, we never would have been a complete nation. The woman has to recognize her uniqueness, embrace it and use that to continue to help us through this dark Galus.
The Ma'asei HaShem on the Passuk in Beraishis "Eh'eh'she lo eizer kinegdo", "I will make for him (Adam) a helper kinegdo" translates the word kinegdo as "to complement him" (not compliment but complement as in balance, harmony, accompaniment). Just as the Passuk in Navi says that the Levi'im served "keneged" the Kohanim, that the service of the Levi'im complemented that of the Kohanim, so, too, the woman was created to complement the man. Just as she is physically different, so too is her purpose.

The Ma�Asei HaShem gives a Mashal. There are two ways to help someone build a house: You can do the same exact thing as him. i.e. both of you can carry a beam together or both of you can paint the same wall together. Then both of you are only working on the same skill. But a house needs more than one skill or craft. There's plumbing, electrical, interior design, etc.

So, the other way is to complement his skill with a unique skill of your own. When one complements the other and helps as the Levi'im did with the Kohanim, then you have an Avodah which is beautiful and harmonious with singing and music. You have a complete unit, like a symphony orchestra.
The woman is meant to complement the man. She is meant to use her unique skills to complement the man's unique skills.

In today's society we are being fooled into believing that the woman must serve exactly as the man. That is not true. We must bring out women's own unique identity and own unique powerful service that Klall Yisrael needs. We know that "Chachmos bansa baisa" - the woman's wisdom builds the house. But not any wisdom, only her exclusive and distinctive talent and ability builds the house. The unique skill that complements. The unique skill of the Nashim Tzidkanios in Mitzra'im, the unique skill of a Devorah, Yael and Esther which has saved Klall Yisroel so many times.