If one believes in God, and accepts that God is to be obeyed, then it doesn’t matter if we disagree with God’s arrangement. Humans are fickle creatures, the current philosophies and trends change with the seasons. The only reason this particular question is being asked at the moment is because we are going through a current fixation on equality. The other problem is that the religious views of woman have been grossly distorted. According to Christian scripture, women are to be respected and taken care of, not dominated in cruel ways.
If it were not for religion, there would be no foundation upon which to base our morals. For example, why are there laws against adult males marrying a four year-old girl? Because that is immoral. Why is it immoral? There is nothing innate within the physical construction of the universe which suggests this. The reason it is immoral and we find it disgusting is because of religion.
Our religious scripture is here to instruct us, to inform us, to train our minds to distinguish between right and wrong. But who defines right and wrong? Again, there is nothing intrinsic in the universe’s physicality to imply right and wrong. They are merely psychological constructions. So where do they come from? Religion.
My point is that for us within religion, who have faith in holy scripture, it is not for us to pass judgement on the correctness of laws contained within those scriptures relative to current social trends. That would be completely ridiculous.