Since you're a woman of faith, and since Judaism has practiced these things even more religiously than Christianity, how would you explain the genesis, nature, and historical proliferation, of the gender-dynamics you note above?
6,000 years ago, most of the world had matriarchal cultures. But the Indo-Europeans were patriarchal. As they successfully spread over Eurasia, they brought that patriarchal culture with them.
Has there ever been in history a culture within which gender did not operate in this way [nature/culture informed by biology, gender, sex] to produce so-called natural sex [between a male and a female]?
With all due respect to Daniel Boyarin and his PhD in Talmudic Studies, any undergraduate college student who has taken Anthropology 100 knows that , there have been, and despite colonization by westerners, still are matriarchal cultures.
The Mosuo, a small ethnic group in southwestern China, practice a matrilineal society where women hold significant authority in family life. Inheritance is passed down through the female line, and family households are headed by women. One of the oddities of the Mosuo is their practice of "walking marriages" (or tisese), where men and women engage in non-cohabiting relationships without formal marriage. Children stay with the mother's family, and fathers have little role in raising them. Women's economic and social power, particularly in managing family property, is what makes them particularly notable, even iconoclastic toward Western assumptions like yours.
I wish to put forth the suggestion that early Christianity is just such a culture.
In its earliest decades, Christians did indeed rebel against the Graeco-Roman misogyny. Women had prominent roles as deaconesses and missionaries, even one Apostle, Junia.
But that quickly changed. By 50 CE, Paul was already writing, ""Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church." Also "But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God."
And so the slow decline back into misogyny began.
The anonymous author of 1 Timothy wrote around 63 CE, ""A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet."
Also around 63 CE, Paul wrote, "Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything."
And so the poison was swallowed. It just needed time to take effect. There is no evidence of any woman apostle after Junia, or any woman ordained as presbyter or bishop. As the church institutionalized, women's power was curtailed more and more, especially in the 5th century. By the seventh century, deaconesses were no longer ordained.
Although I'm a long, long, long ways from being Christian, as a woman I support the liberation of women worldwide in every venue. It is very comforting to me to see that there are those in the church pushing for the restoration of the female diaconate. More churches are now allowing female senior pastors, and even churches that are opposed to women's ordination have substantially increased women's power i.e. as theologians.