If you're okay with your ancestors having no property rights, being the property of men, being sold into marriages, being raped and enslaved, being unable to vote, unable to divorce their husbands, unable to speak in many cultures, unable to become leaders for many years (unless through Monarchistic Inheritance), being married into positions that gave male leaders power (as was the practice in Europe for many hundreds of years), having husbands who could legally beat them, having husbands who in some cultures could legally kill them and being paid less for the same work as men, that's okay. BUt please don't try to pull the wool over my eyes and tell me the churches (Protestant AND Catholic) have historically taught the equality of men and women. It's just not true:
"the very consciousness of their own nature must evoke in women feelings of shame" -- St. Clement of Alexandria,
Pedagogues.
"In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God’s sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil’s gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die… Woman, you are the gate to hell." -- Tertullian,
On the Apparel of Women.
For it is improper for a woman to speak in an assembly, no matter what she says, even if she says admirable things, or even saintly things, that is of little consequence, since they come from the mouth of a woman -- Origen,
Fragments of First Corinthians
Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one. -- St. Augustine,
Bishop of Hippo Regius
What is the difference whether it is in a wife or a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman… I fail to see what use woman can be to man, if one excludes the function of bearing children. -- St. Augustine,
Bishop of Hippo Regius
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one’s guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. … Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good. -- St. Albertus Magnus,
Quaestiones Super de Animalibus
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from a defect in the active force or from some material indisposition, or even from some external influence. -- Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologica
And it isn't just Catholicism:
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes. -- Martin Luther,
Works
No gown worse suits a woman than the desire to be wise --
Martin Luther
Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children. -- Martin Luther,
Table Talk
Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude. -- John Calvin,
Commentary on Genesis
And it's not just Europeans:
Even as the church must fear Christ Jesus, so must the wives also fear their husbands. And this inward fear must be shewed by an outward meekness and lowliness in her speeches and carriage to her husband. . . . For if there be not fear and reverence in the inferior, there can be no sound nor constant honor yielded to the superior. -- John Dod,
A Plain and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandments
The second duty of the wife is constant obedience and subjection. -- John Dod,
A Plain and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandments
The women's agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. -- Pat Robertson,
Fundraising Letter (1992)
The Holiness of God is not evidenced in women when they are brash, brassy, boisterous, brazen, head-strong, strong-willed, loud-mouthed, overly-talkative, having to have the last word, challenging, controlling, manipulative, critical, conceited, arrogant, aggressive, assertive, strident, interruptive, undisciplined, insubordinate, disruptive, dominating, domineering, or clamoring for power. Rather, women accept God’s holy order and character by being humbly and unobtrusively respectful and receptive in functional subordination to God, church leadership, and husbands. -- James Fowler,
Women in the Church, 1999
If that's not evidence enough for you that women have throughout recorded history been generally considered inferior in Christian religions, check out this, the
Malleus Malificarum, a guide published by the Vatican in the Medieval period, containing instructions on how to properly illicit confessions under torture, from accused "witches". It contains some lovely imagery.
If that's still not enough, I'm sure I can send you pages and pages of information on how the Catholic Church, up until the late twentieth century in Ireland, created social conditions where underage pregnant women were disowned and forced to live in convents undertaking backbreaking manual labour for no pay, nd were shamed, abused, and tortured in those same institutions. If you haven't already, please read up on the convents of Ireland, particularly the "Magdalene Asylums".