When we first started the discussion of wives submitting to their husbands, we said scripture is not teaching that men are better or more valuable than women. We know this because of Jesus' relationship to the Father.
"The head of Christ is God" (1 Corinthians 11:3) and yet Jesus said the Father and I are One" (John 10:30, 17:22). Jesus is God and the Father is God. (John 1:1-3, 14; Hebrews 1:8). We do not esteem the Father more than Jesus nor vise versa. Why then would we esteem men more than women? (Galatians 3:28).
There is a marked deference between authority lines and marks of value.
