I agree that a lot of petty crime that results in prison sentences like non payment of council tax is ridiculous, and yes that sort of low level, non-violent, often borne of poverty "crime" should be treated the same regardless of sex.
I think a lot could be done with rehabilitation and support for lots of those sorts of crimes for both sexes. I'd like to see a lot more done in the way of prevention, but I wouldn't even know where to start that's such a multi-armed behemoth task, so it's just wishful thinking on my part.
But you are ignoring the important facts that women are often imprisoned for these sort of petty non-violent crimes when men often just aren't. The system is often sexist and weighed against women when it comes to crimes like that.
I'm not comparing violent male offenders with non-violent female offenders at all. I'm saying there's a huge difference between them.
You're the one who seems to be saying you'd rather the more likely to reoffend violent male offenders get early release than see non-violent female offenders who have been shown able to become rehabilitated, and have those violent male offenders serve their sentence in a different prison... because somehow you see that as the equality women were asking for?
Edited to add a couple of "often"s because someone is going to say I said men never get put in prison for that sort of crime, and of course they do, just not at the same rate as women.