In the Hebrew culture, it may seem that the woman was given a backseat to the man: this is not, at all, true. I think it has more to do with the physical dimensions of the average woman, as compared to the average man. This was evident in the fact that; the men were called upon to go to war, whereas, initially, the women were not.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies. And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
(Numbers 1:1-4)
In the life of Abraham, the important place of the woman was clearly evident. To see this; please, look at the driving force in the inheritance that Abraham was able to accumulate on several levels. The first level of accumulation of inheritance is; the blessing that is children. The importance of this level is highlighted in the following Scripture.
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