Hard question: does religion subjugate women through patriarchy?

• How do you respond to the criticism that religion subjugates women through patriarchy?

A listener asks how to handle the criticism that religion subjugates women through patriarchy, usually aimed at Paul's writings on women. The hosts answer that Jesus did more to advance women than anyone in history; Paul's instruction that women learn 'in silence and full submission' was revolutionary precisely because he insisted women be educated at all, and the failure lies in freezing first-century church culture as timeless. They add that some biblical ethics are static (e.g., on homosexuality, in their view) while others move the needle progressively, and warn against cherry-picking isolated verses from a 66-book compilation.