D. Kevin Dunham, "all the major religious texts" that you mention are 1,400 or more years old, which probably accounts for their assumption that men decide and women obey.  The world hasn't really had any "major religious texts" since then.  The Baha'is are sort of an exception--they do explicitly teach equality of men and women--but they are scarcely a major faith in terms of numbers.

Let's have a global contest for a new scripture.  Prize will be your choice of stoning, burning or beheading.  The new faith will need a martyr to get off to a good start.