When the Roman Emperor Constantine brought the Council of Niacea together in 325AD with the purpose of assembling a book (The Bible) for the Christian Church, which he had legalized, he wanted the new religion's mores to be close enough to the Roman belief system it was replacing that the Romans would readily accept it.
Women in the Roman Empire were one step above slaves in status. They sat in the upper tiers of the Coliseum while men sat in the lower ones where the view was better. There were many other ways women were "kept in line." Constantine wanted to keep it that way, so he included the Epistles of Saul of Tarsus while not including The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Jesus gave women a high standing in his movement while Constantine wanted to suppress such ideas.
It was at this point, in my opinion, that the Christian Church departed from the teachings of The Man From Galilee.