Why all Abrahamic Religions force women to remain inferior to men?

"Needless to say, Abrahamic religions (Islam, Christianty and Judaism) are Patriarchal Doctrines steming from patriarchal societies." This is begging the question, far from being 'needless to say' you would have to argue such a point. Secondly, you confuse difference with equality, that people are treated differently does not necessarily mean they are treated unequally, one law for the lion and ox is oppression. all the best urban

it is only Islam that force women to remain inferior. Christians or even the "Non-Practicing" Christians or Roman Catholic by birth( but dont go to church)- Like Myself, are treating woman as equal and oftentimes even more superior to men

H khayam, I'm with you on this, it is the churches that have kept women from getting equal rights for so long. There is absolutely no reason for churches not to ordain women, and as you say some churches are doing it. Anyone who studies history can see that it has been the norm for church to oppose progress. Women are equal to men and it's time for all churches to get with it. Blessings.

It's really quite simple, Khayam. Men made the rules. If you haven't the persoality to do what you want to do, you can always say God said so. The religions you pointed out all have a variety of "levels" of orthodoxy, including several in which women are the leaders. As far as I can tell, it's not the rreligion that calls for treating women as if we werenot fully human; it's the practitioners of it.

I really don't believe Christianity makes women inferior. That is not what the bible says, it is only how some interpret it to say. The bible says to for a woman to be submissive to her own husband, it does not say subservient, and this too must be in context to the whole chapter. It was about a wife not to have another man instructing her, and as for the man being the head of the house, so many try to make this a mater of controversy. It only means that the man is the priest of the family, he is the bread winner and he is responsible for the well being of his family, it is about responsibility not control.

In the strictest sense since from pre-history Man brought home the bacon, against seemingly tough competition in the harsh world, Man had occasion to think he has a greater strength, and when religion( wherever possible politics and statecraft were subservient to religion) came in as a means bring order. This is the first rule-book writing. By that time Man had established his "upper hand". So all religious laws had to be slanted towards/ advantageous to man. The march of knowledge and life based on knowledge has shown that there is not any difference in intelligence between Man and Woman. So, increasingly you see the barriers to all "differences and biased opinions" being replaced by newer legislation(Political Action) as in our day religion is no more the law maker, though the lobby is still strong, wanting to make it a stronghold. Among the Abrahamic Religions Judaism and Christianity being practiced in countries where education and human development have been divested of religious control, to a much much greater extent than in Islamic countries in general. So, the kind of opinions about women people hold do change faster. In Islamic countries Religion is still the basis of Law. Did you read about the Taliban giving warnings to parents in areas of Afghanistan, under T-control to marry off their young girls to militants? This is what will happen when religion holds sway over peoples' minds even in the face of the March of Science or other areas of knowledge in secular endeavor.