Women and Religion

You're entirely making too much of this. In Islam, men are treated as men, and women are treated as women. The end.

Also, bear in mind that women's suffrage only took place in America in the 1920s and prior to then, women were deemed especially inferior to men. Blacks and other minorities were treated as second-class citizens until the late 1960s, and the Native American population in the U.S.A. is virtually non-existent now -especially when compared to their presence in the Americas prior to the 17th Century. My point being that one should look inward prior to criticizing others.

Now, if all these ^^^ things took place in 20th Century America, then you can understand why the Qu'ran, having been written almost 1400 years ago, would state it as such. It wasn't really until the 1970s that American women really began acheiving "equality" (although it is debateable whether they have actually acheived this), and there were texts written and used in American schools in the 20th Century that taught girls and boys that women were inferior to men -now if this was happening in 20th Century America, wouldn't you EXPECT it to happen in 7th Century Arabia???