Beating women in Islam

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Muhammad's fist wife was a successful businesswoman and yet I consently hear from people how the Jahilyia was such a horrid time for women and the Sahabah treated women so much better. The Ancient Egyptians treated women so nicely and equitably *and then the religions of Abraham come along and make their lives worse, for example. There were multiple female Pharaohs but no female Caliph as far I know. Why?

*As much as a stone/bronze age society could I guess but they had multiple female heads of state  (Pharaohs) so women could hold the most powerful position in Egypt. They didn't have religious texts that held women back after all. That's what I'm getting at.

Arab women before Islam were prohibited from inheriting the father or the husband. Female infants were also buried alive at so many times to escape the shame of having a weak child: since girls are weaker than boys.

Islam demolished all of that and restructured the image of women in the minds of ancient Arabs, from treating them as weak burdens that need to be buried alive to equal human beings.

Ancient Egyptians were different than most societies in so many things; especially in how they treated women. But they weren't perfect as you picture them; and pretty much backward too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_ancient_Egypt

Women in ancient Egypt had some special rights other women did not have in other comparable societies. They could own property and were legally at court, equal to men. However, Ancient Egypt was a society dominated by men. Women could not have important positions in administration and were also excluded from ruling the country although there are some significant exceptions. Women at the royal court gained their position by the relationship to a male king.[1]