We then interpret all the difficult texts to conform to that chosen paradigm. Fortunately, God is not a legalist. Even if male-dominated cultures produced the scriptures, God raises up a Deborah to lead His people. Both males and females were created in the image of God, Roberts Hestenes Ministry of Women writes in Genesis 1 and 2. Women are part of that foundation.
Hierarchy results from the fall, in which both man and woman participated.
But you say Eve was to be a helper of Adam, implying inferiority. Not at all. Jesus, Paul, and Peter were ahead of their chauvinistic culture in granting personhood and dignity. Women were there at the cradle of the Messiah, and at the cross and resurrection. Rosemary Radford Ruether, in Sexism and God-Talk , writes concerning the Resurrection experience, Mary ran back to the room above the store where some of the disciples were hiding to tell them of her experience and the messages she had been given by Jesus.