President Jimmy Carter Makes Connection between Discrimination Against Women in Religion and Abuse/Violence toward Women in Society in new book

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-transcript-march-23-2014-n59966

..."For the last three years, we've been concentrating on the relationship between religion on the one hand and abuse of women and girls on the other. The existing abuse of females is the worst, and most pervasive, and unaddressed human rights violation on earth.

That is really derived, I would say, indirectly women ordained white from the fact that religious leaders say that women are inferior in the eyes of God, which is a false interpretation of the holy scriptures. But when they see that the Pope, and the Southern Baptist Convention, and others say that women can't serve as priests and so forth equally with men, they say, "Well, and I'll treat my wife the way I want to because she's inferior to me."