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I think the early church was pretty pro-women in general, the earliest writing seem to indicate that. The anti-women sentiment was added later.

Paul said women could and did speak openly in church, but in I Corinthians there's a command for women to keep silent, and there's evidence that that was inserted by a scribe at some point.

There's other cases of Paul's letters or even Acts being changed by scribes to reduce or eliminate a woman's prominence. In one place Paul names a woman as "foremost among the apostles", and some scribes later changed it so that she was related to the foremost, basically stripping her of being an apostle!