I'll have to look up my source again, but I'm sure I read it somewhere. Irregardless, women still have several things they are punished for unfairly. I believe Leviticus 19:20 is interesting in that respect: "And whoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to her husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given to her, she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free." Pretty much what it says is that if a woman is a servant/slave, and she gets raped, SHE gets punished, and the man gets away free.
Hi, I at one time wondered why the law seemed harder on women, so I studied Leviticus, and found that the law is pure love from God, in his provision care and desire to sustain the Hebrew people.
Think of things, if you or I witnessed stoning for not keeping the Sabbath and all which God commanded about the Sabbath, more than likely we would not do the same thing. So, I would gather it didn't take much for people to realize, I need keep these laws lest I be stoned.
This is how it was during the law given to the Hebrews.
Anyway, God loves women very well, same as men, but all was given to protect, help, reveal God (compassion), etc.
But lack of love does not necessarily mean that you have to do harmful things... there are many I do not love, and there are many I downright hate. But I'm not going to say, fly hijacked airliners into buildings because I don't like people. Really, the worse I see as reasonable if you don't like someone is to limit contact with them. So again - why does God allow evil to happen?