Dan Brown points out in his book that the picture that the Catholic Church teaches about Eve who has to atone for the sin of paradise for ever is the picture that the Catholic Church (and Opus Dei particularly) has created and from that follows the subjection of woman in the Catholic Church. On the other hand he states that the majority of the catholic are moving to right direction in relation to womens rights.
This is where Dan Brown is right about, since the Roman Catholic Church has viewed woman in extremely disparaging way when e.g. debating upon the question if woman has a soul, viewing woman as seductress, burning women at the stake and many other things. But we have to understand that the Roman Catholic Church is a religious institution and not the church taught by the word of God. That is why the Catholic Church and the values it represents have subjected women. The Bible teaches that every husband is to love his wife the same way as Christ loves the church. The Bible also shows that Jesus and the apostles appreciated and respected women. Thus Biblical faith regards women highly but does not teach anything about worshipping a goddess, of course.
In the Hebrew Bible there is the name EL SHADDAI (The Almighty). The Hebrew word shad means a breast (of a woman) and because of this some have come to a conclusion that God is a woman or represents a goddess. But the Bible does not teach that God is a man or a woman, but God, Creator and Father. God created man in his own image, that includes male and female, but God is neither of them nor is he united male-female or female-male, but he is God, Spirit, who is much higher than a human being. God cannot be described like a human being, since God is eternal Spirit who has created man and his life. God calls himself Father several times in the Old Testament scriptures, also Jesus called God Father. Thus God has wanted to call himself Father and that is why it is a sin and it is wrong to Him a goddess.
God does not have any old score to settle with women nor are men his special favourites even though He calls himself Father. The Bible teaches that put of the loins of Abraham that is out of his seed will become a great nation and blessing. The seed out of Abrahams loins moved into Sarahs womb, out of which Isaac was born and then after many generations the great blessing was born of Abrahams descendants: Lord Jesus Christ. Perhaps here is the reason why God wants himself to be called Father because out of the loins of a father a seed will move into a mothers womb, so the starting point and beginning of life comes from a man (the father), out of whom it moves into a womans womb. The question is not that God discriminates women but God has chosen the father and fathers seed to symbolize the beginning and the origin of life. God (the Father) himself is the originator of all life, that is why He chose the word Father to show His position as the originator of life. And the question is not about mens desire to subject women and exercise patriarchal power but Gods own choice and will.
In his book Dan Brown emphasizes sacred feminity in which a womans womb acts as the giver of life. This emphasis also knocks down the truth that in reality the Father God is the one who originates life and is lifes Creator and who uses the womb as one tool when originating human life.