As we all know, actions speak louder than words. Such a male child will behave kindly enough toward women so long as he is not under any special strain. But the veneer is very thin and his baser emotions, which were never reined in and trained by female spiritual role models, will express themselves when he is under duress. Such a male has never learned to associate female and self-control. For women in these societies the situation is truly that of captives in every sense of the word.
Spiritual torment is terrible indeed.
Such a woman lives in a society in which religion permeates every aspect of society. Yet she has only the participation in this society that the men, who are the religious authorities, describe for her in accordance with the abilities they ascribe to her. In religious societies expertise in the written and oral traditions is sine qua non for the acquisition of any authority. The females are given less education than the men and the men determine their curricula. Nay, the men describe the parameters of a female's very being and according to these imaginary parameters decide what women are capable of learning.