Due to interpretations of the creation stories, women have been considered to be in a state of punishment for sin. The Latin Fathers of the Church held women responsible for bringing original sin into the world and for being a continuing source of seduction. Women were considered 'sinful creatures' wholly inappropriate to be channels of god's grace.
Genesis describes the fall and God says to Eve,
“I will multiply your pains in childbirth. You shall give birth to your children in pain. You will long for your husband, but he will lord it over you.”
Therefore women's subjection to men was interpreted as an inescapable curse by God. 1 Timothy 2,14 blames Eve for being deceived and therefore responsible for sin.
The Latin Fathers such as Tertullian were misogynists. For example:
“Every woman should be ….walking about as Eve mourning and repentant, in order that by every garb of penitence she might the more fully expiate that which she derives from Eve,-the ignominy, I mean, of the first sin, and the odium (attaching to her as the cause) of human perdition."
St Jerome blamed women for the fall from grace saying that women can only overcome their guilt by childbearing, or by abstaining from sex and becoming virgins.
Ambrosiaster said:
"Women must cover their heads because they are not the image of God. They must do this as a sign of their subjection to authority and because sin came into the world through them...Because of original sin they must show themselves submissive.”
St Chrysostom said that the subjection of the ‘whole female race’ to men was a permanent punishment for sin.
The Decretum Gratiani states that in the New Testament women are allowed less than in the Old Testament, because now they have to carry the responsibility for their share in original sin.This reasoning is directly tied to the ban against women’s ordination.
Guido de Baysio said:
“Moreover, woman was the effective cause of damnation since she was the origin of transgression and Adam was deceived through her, and thus she cannot be the effective cause of salvation, because holy orders causes grace in others and so salvation."
The Hammer of the Witches which was endorsed by Pope Innocent VIII was used for centuries and millions of women were tortured and killed. Here's an example:
“It should be noted that there was a defect in the formation of the first woman, since she was formed from a bent rib, that is, a rib of the breast, which is bent as it were in a contrary direction to man. And since through this defect she is an imperfect animal, she always deceives”.
There is page after page of vitriol against women who are viewed as inferior to men and the cause of original sin. And so it goes on.