Christian History Corner: Is Christianity Oppressive to Women? - Christianity Today Magazine
This is an excellent article on this subject. In our small town, we have a weekly newspaper. Currently, the Southern Baptist pastor writes a "column" for the paper. I'm sure he pays to have this printed so it functions more as an info-mercial for the Baptist church.

Recently, he wrote about the roles of men and women in Christ and in the church. Several women in my churches were upset. I was upset. It is amazing how backwards and behind the times these pieces sounded, even in rural America which manages to be behind the times anyways.

I am tried of the equal in worth, different in function or role arguments. At least the church fathers were honest as were the reformers. They believed women were inferior and they said it.

Some argue that to argue for an egalitarian view over a traditional view is to allow our culture to shape our beliefs over Scripture shaping our beliefs. Yet traditionalists no longer argue that women are inferior. They argue that women are of equal worth but have different roles. Hasn't culture changed their argument? Or have they found something in the Scriptures that changed their argument that the church fathers and reformers missed?