The question arises whether God is a male chauvinist because He made the husband the head of the wife. Paul instructed women not to teach or have authority over men in the church. Some suggest that God made only males in His image and created woman as an afterthought. To clarify what God had in mind about man and woman, both male and female together were created in the image of God. God did not create a superior and inferior sex any more than He created a superior and inferior race. God has characteristics considered masculine and feminine. Men need to incorporate Godlike feminine characteristics such as tenderness, mercy, and patience. Women need to learn masculine characteristics such as strength, assertiveness, and decisiveness. Swapping roles is not the answer. Both men and women need to incorporate all these characteristics into their personalities to qualify as members of God's Family.

Before allowing ourselves to conclude that Solomon was a sexist pig as a result of his writing about women, we should rethink it. We should not think that he was totally down on women, since he speaks positively of them in many other places. However, God allowed a small bit of Solomon's personal experiences and their results to appear in His Word because they can serve as wisdom for us. Wisdom must be used. Ecclesiastes 7:27-28 take us further along the line in terms of Solomon's personal experiences and attitudes toward women. Here is what I have found, says the Preacher, adding one thing to the other to find out the reason, which my soul still seeks but I cannot find. One man among a thousand I have found, but a woman among all these I have not found. The passage directly labels this as his personal experience. He might have actually been counting. Several commentators believe they are simply general statements similar to what we might use today. We may have even heard a person, whether male or female, described as one in a million. If taken as true, the one-in-a-thousand figure posits that a man is but one one-hundredth of one percent better than a woman. But sin is an equal-opportunity predator. Taken as a whole, the Bible has much more to say about sinful men than sinful women. Solomon himself says in verse 20, There is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin. The emphasis in verse 28 is on man as contrasted to woman. The reality is that even the one good man that he found was still a sinner. In Solomon's personal experience as king, a high number of the women he had contact with were from aristocratic families, likely spoiled and bitter floozies accustomed to getting their way all their lives. Considering his writings, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs, he generally has good things to say about women. Yet, even the righteous women, such as the lady of Proverbs 31, were, like men, still sinners who need saved by grace. Overall, though, his experiences with women seems not to have been good.