Question about female worth in islam.

[Zone]

Arabic, you mean.

I think Islam has it's own culture/ethnicity hence why you have Muslims who see themselves as Muslims first and whatever else, say nationality, second. Some Muslims are completely Westernised of course and so part of Western culture which is secular Christian or secular post Christian. So I mean Islamic culture.

In Islamic culture, men & women are equal

It says men are "a degree above women" in the Quran. And the word of two women is equal to one man.

, and nobody was asked to stay home.
In arabic culture, women are inferior, and supposed to stay home.

The situation was exactly the same in Western/European/Christian culture as it was in Arab culture or most other places in the world. Equal rights for women is a compartively recent phenonmenon. Westernised Muslims like yourself agree with it obviously even if your holy book doesn't really if you read it.

Zone, the Quran gives many stories about brave women who committed heroic acts, some of them defied lords & kings. Some of them traveled east & west just to serve god, some of them were Queens !!
And we are supposed to follow in the footsteps of these women.

Same goes for the Christian world as well, you have Joan of Arc there for instance, Queen Elitzabeth. But in general they weren't considered equal, they were like your property or children you have to look after. Rule of thumb is an English expression which originally meant that you should avoid beating your wife with an object wider than your own thumb.