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We then come to Verse 10 in Genesis Chapter 3. Speaking to the woman it reads 'Your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you'. Does this imply a God-ordained destiny as a result of the fall for man to have authority and rulership over women? God is simply stating, as fact that as a result of the fall, because of his greater physical strength, man will typically 'master' or dominate women, who will nevertheless still desire the men, but probably in something of a controlling way like sin in our lives. God was doing no more than acknowledging that as a result of the fall, the battle of the sexes had begun. Man would in practice come out on top by brute force, not because God intended it this way, far from it, but as a consequence of sin.