It would be "simplistic" to expect quick decisions on women, LGBT people and other hot-button issues from the Vatican summit that opened on Wednesday, one of the women taking part in the male-dominated deliberations told Reuters. In one of the reforms introduced by Pope Francis, 54 women have for the first time been given voting rights in the so-called synod of bishops, which has 365 members, plus about 100 non-voting participants. One of these women is Italian theologian, philosopher and Catholic activist Giuseppina De Simone, who spoke to Reuters in St Peter's Square before joining the first session of the month-long gathering.