For the record:  Biblical Christianity does NOT make women “true equals” with men in all ways.  God has given women equal access to salvation through belief in the Gospel of Christ (Galatians 3:28) and those women who believe are then are “heirs together of the grace of life”(1 Peter 3:7) with men who believe.

But the Scriptures tell us that women may not “usurp authority over the man” (1 Timothy 2:12) and they are forbidden from being leaders (pastors) of local churches as the elder must be “the husband of one wife” (1 Timothy 3:2).

The Bible gives us God’s order in this world in 1 Corinthians 11:3 & 7-10 (KJV):

“But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man…forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head…”

In 1 Peter 3:5-7 the Bible admonishes women to follow the example of the women of the Old Testament who obeyed their husbands as their earthly lords:

“For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”

The Bible does not in any way support the modern ideals of egalitarianism or feminism.

The Bible tells us God created woman for man, that man is the head of woman, that women cannot usurp authority over man and that in marriage the husband is to be obeyed as the lord/master of the wife.

Women have equal access to salvation through Jesus Christ and have equal value as image bearers of God – even though they bear a weaker (1 Peter 3:7) version of God’s image. But the Bible does not describe men and women as equals in their rank, rights or responsibilities. Instead it explicitly states that women are to be subordinate to men in the home, in the church and in society.