But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
Nor to have dominion over a man ...  This rule is not unreasonable nor capricious.  Every entity must have a head, and the headship of man over the family and in the church is by divine appointment.  Evil men who do not believe in God, thus rejecting any thought that there even is such a thing as "divine appointment," find it difficult to accept this; but those who believe in God and his word receive it joyfully.  In the next two verses, Paul spelled out the reason for God's investiture of family headship and church authority upon men, and not upon women.