Burke here we go again to my point. That what people do doesn't mean that's how it is. Let me go back in history in 17th century in england women was not considered a creature, later on it was but without spirit, and after that they couldn't vote or whatever. I still don't blame christianity for that. What is destroying Islam is the fact that some people are trying to play the role of the God, by punishing people and telling them what to do which is wrong, exactly those people you are referring too.
Women is very important based on Qur'an and should be treated nicely. But women are not equal to men. And equality is on opportunity(you can argue on that, some of them don't get same opportunity, but still i blame individuals not religion itself) not distribution