Why would women want to join a Religion?

[FatAndFaithless]

I'm obviously not speaking from experience, but I think religion can be offered as a 'justification' or a 'feel-better explanation' for certain inequalities in a society towards women. For example, if a woman grows up in a community in which females are strictly relegated to the kitchen and bedroom, any qualms a young woman might have can be smoothed over with an early enough installation of the "It's not oppression, you're still equal to men, you just have a different role as defined by <insert holy book>" explanation. Having a way to explain the unequal state of the sexes instead of realizing that it is simply unjust and unequal and oppressive could be very appealing to someone in the oppressed group (in this case women).