mercedo wrote today at 12:04 AMI simply stated the fact and I am opposed to that idea.
Some of words left by Apostle Paul concerning women were already out of date from today's egalitarian viewpoint. But considering the fact that he uttered those words in the early first century, those are rather revolutionary democratic. Congregations were where people meet, especially young people who were seeking for their partners too, so he needed to draw the very basic outlines for them.
Male supremacy is an obsolete idea and it's not a good idea too. Many religions were made in very old times and still they drag such traditions.
In Ecclesiasticus or a Book of Jesus, the son of Sirah-this book is different from famous Ecclesiastes, apparently sexist views were written in chapter 25 that says all sins are derived from a woman and because of her all die, the writer hates nothing but the wickedness of woman, etc.
This book was excluded as Apocrypha, so thanks to such sober transactions, Bible has been kept in truly egalitarian viewpoint.