"I look upon Jesus' teaching on divorce as the first feminist legislation . . ."

You're in good company with Reese, who says, "Jesus quite rightly condemned it since practically all divorces were done by powerful men to powerless women."

Both of you misstate the reason for Jesus' rule against divorce.  Jesus not only didn't mention the plight of women after divorce --- although he had every chance to --- but he did, in fact, tell us the reason.  That he saw marriages as being an unbreakable bond between man and woman, except for the one transgression capable of breaking that bond:  adultery.  

Now don't get all huffy with me.  I personally think Jesus was wrong, but I humbly submit to his judgment on this.  After all, he is God, and, as we lawyers say, he's entitled "great deference."  Absolute deference, actually.  That's something Jesuits tend to forget.  Follow Jesus and you can't go wrong.  Follow a Jesuit for long and you'll wind up a Franciscan.