Something to keep in mind.

We fail to realize just how deeply the practice of slavery and degradation of women are built into our psyche.  Bending another to our will is the most natural thing in the world.  It is evolutionary.  It is the most powerful rising to the top.  In the same vein, so is the degradation and subjugation of women.  Men are stronger and can force women to do what the man wills.  The Bible was written in and to a world where these values were in full force.  We, on the other hand, are enjoying 2,000 years of fruit of the kingdom of God, which has sought to end both of these.  So the question remains, why didn’t God simply make a law that men are to treat women as equals?

Because the point is not for men to treat women as equals but for men to see women as equals.