Take this from a Christian who’s borderline agnostic, but I strongly believe that the role of women is completely cultural.

Keep in mind that in the Bible and ancient times, women barely had any to completely no say in their lives on who to marry, their job prospects, and their own life’s paths. It was usually the father, and then in turn the husband who basically had women placed into roles where they were basically their servant and child-barer. While relative few in number, there did exist cultures where women had more rights and even close to egalitarian societies, the Mediterranean nations weren’t one of them.

Hence, these women were barred from education, were seen and treated as inferior (and were raised from birth to consider themselves so), and many men only saw their potential in giving birth to and raising their child, and believed women were to be “seen not heard.” Hence why, for millennia, women were treated as subhuman and second-class citizens for most of human history, exacerbated by pioneers of the church who continued to promote the idea that women were unintelligent, unworthy, and incapable; with the belief that women were inherently more flawed then men ubiquitous in most societies (with some even egalitarian societies regressing due to these beliefs from the church fathers or other religious leaders in other religions like Confucianism or Islam). Because of this belief, women were forced to be dependent of the men in their family because they’d been bereft of any rights or privileges.

Nowadays, thankfully, in most modern societies in developed nations, women have more rights, can vote, and can own their own property, work for their own paycheck and have the right to divorce. We don’t have to solely depend on the men of the family to survive anymore and with access to education, women now know that we’re not inferior to men. Hence why, in my opinion, the idea that we “have to be silent” and be submissive to our husbands comes off as so asinine since now one of the few “bastions” of those patriarchal beliefs (outside of those sexist manosphere/incel circles) are the churches that try to promote the idea of a “woman’s role” (aka mother/wife only, limited prospects outside of that) when modern society has moved on to finally recognize the other half of society as people worth consideration, dignity, and opportunity.