If we read the story of Adam and Eve without prejudice, at face value, it raises many more troubling questions about the nature of God than about the nature of woman.  Why did God choose to create human beings with such capacity for curiosity and temptation?  Why did God place the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the garden?  Why did God allow the serpent in the garden?  Certainly Adam and Eve did not will the serpent to be there (or whatever realities all these symbols intend to portray).  And if Eve lived in a sinless paradise, she was naive of any knowledge of deceit or cunning, and she appears to be more curious than rebellious.  There is also no evidence that she seduced or tricked Adam, he appears to have been there the whole time.  The story to me shows that God is much more unpredictable, welcoming of risk, and, dare I say, mischievous, than we would like to believe.  Poor Eve has become the object of all our disavowed discomfort and uncertainty about the nature of God