Why do you think that all the abrahamic religions (and a lot of other religions as well) controlled women?
Even if you're an atheist and believe that religion were manmade... they have been made to build a functioning society. They enforced rules like no murder, rape and robbery to keep order. They banned alcohol in some cases because it's bad for you. Same with gambling. Circumcision was actually beneficial back then for hygienic purposes (now not really because we can shower every day). Pork wasn't as clean back then as well, so it was banned for health reasons.
And the same for women. Religion enforced monogamy, so that everyone could have a wife. The natural state is that the alpha males breed with a lot of women and keep them to themselves (polygamy). The rest in the tribe didn't breed. But monogamy made it so that even Chad could only have one wife. So virgin wifes for basically all men. And that way, most men had a reason to build and work for society. Because they would be rewarded with a wife.
And because women don't have the same capabilities as men, and because they are fucking evil, religion controlled them so that they couldn't do what they wanted.