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It may be for this reason that to tempt man to rebel against God, the Devil first undermined his helper. To this day, it takes a lot of moral courage for a man to resist being led astray by a woman, whereas most women typically demonstrate greater moral strength to resist doing wrong when men try to lead them astray. Having accomplished the more difficult task of first tempting woman to fall, as far as the Devil was concerned man was a 'push over,' he could just delegate it to the woman to do the tempting of man for him. Women are definitely morally superior to men. As a consequence of the fall, man was set to work by the 'sweat of his brow' to provide for both his needs but also those of women for whom childbirth became more painful. Thus in scripture it is clear that even in his fallen state, man is expected by God to work to provide for the needs of women. Although it almost died out in our culture, in old fashioned manners whereby men gave up their seats for ladies or opened doors for them, and concepts of male chivalry, there are the vestiges of this natural order in which, even fallen man implicitly acknowledged the superiority of women and his responsibility to care for her. As an older man I can never understand why women did not seem to want this preferential treatment by men to continue alongside being given equal opportunities and pay in the workplace. Women have every right to expect both. Fortunately, there are some encouraging signs that many younger women are now coming to realise that they deserve and should expect both: equal or preferential opportunities, as well as deference from men with respectful manners. More 'power to them' I say.