Side by side, naturally

In many ways, women are closer to nature than men. The reverse can also be stated for some male attributes, but it is women who follow a natural cycle more obviously than men.

From vulva symbols to Venus figurines to Sheela Na Gig to...
The female has always been thought of as the giver of life.

Sure, women need men to plant their seed, but the rest of the baby making process is up to their biology.
Human life is created in women.
That statement flies in the face of the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions.

Is this why women have been so poorly treated by religions? Is it merely because the biological ability to grow a life inside them was so poorly understood by those primitive men who invented the religions, that they wanted no competition for their God's creation abilities?

Other religions with strong female goddesses were crushed or assimilated by the Christians whose missionaries were often accompanied by armies.

The gospel of Mary Magdalene was omitted from the modern bible.
Even Jesus' mother, Mary, was a bit player, who if you follow her story, was anything but the blushing bride after giving birth to Jesus. The mother of Jesus was basically cast off after her usefulness as a brood mare.

The bible is an interesting, if poorly written book, full of inconsistancies and, quite obviously, written by males with little or no understanding of nature.

If they had understood nature better, women's roles in the bible would have been proportionate with their roles in nature... as companions and partners in the life cycle.

Or perhaps they understood but didn't want women to be companions and partners? Perhaps they wanted women to be subservient to men?

The time for that silliness has passed. In many places we've grown as a species back to a time when women were valued members of the tribe. Not all places; some of the strictly religious places remain places where women are little better than property.

The time of religious superstition and magic creation stories is passing into mythology.
Let's move forward as a species, men and women, side by side, naturally, as we once did.