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The question is incorrectly formulated – it contains a false statement. Even two: the woman is not demonized, and the serpent, the devil, is called guilty of the fall. People broke the law and were not released from responsibility – both Adam and Eve. We read in Genesis 3 :” And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? He said, ” I heard your voice in Paradise, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” And he said, ” Who told you that you were naked?” Did you not eat of the tree from which I forbade you to eat? Adam said, ” The woman You gave me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” And the Lord God said to the woman, ” What is this that you have done?” The woman said, ” The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: thou shalt walk upon thy belly, and eat dust all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. To the woman he said, ” I will greatly multiply your affliction in your pregnancy; in your sickness you will bear children; and your desire is for your husband, and he will rule over you.” And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it;cursed is the earth for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns and thistles shalt it bring forth for thee; and thou shalt eat of the grass of the field; in the sweat of
But there is also a “new Eve” – this is the Blessed Virgin Mary. Just as through Eve's error and disobedience sin and death came into the world, so through Her consent (“Let it be done unto me according to thy word”) salvation came into the world.
Guilty of the fall, for that matter, Adam. It was created earlier, and Eve is its “edge”, that is, its part. In other words, if Adam had responded to the suggestion of a forbidden apple (or olive, I don't know what that fruit looked like): “My dear, what are you doing?!” – there would have been no fall, it would have been just naive and trusting Eve. They would apologize to God for their disobedience, and the conflict would be settled. But Adam accepts the forbidden fruit, and thus involves all of humanity in the fall. After all, it was after Adam ate the fruit of the tree of Knowledge that both Adam and Eve opened their eyes to their own nakedness. Nothing happened while Eve ate alone.
I would suggest looking at the story a little differently.
God expected Adam and Eve to repent:
And here, instead of the answer: “Yes, I am guilty, I broke the ban, I'm sorry,” for the first time what you are talking about happened – Adam demonized a woman – shifted the blame to her and to God:
So it is not religion that demonizes, but religion knows and says that people shift their responsibility.
Similarly, you can read about this story in any book about the first chapters of the Bible. Here, for example:
Archpriest Oleg Davydenkov Dogmatic Theology
https://azbyka.ru/otechnik/Oleg_Davydenkov/dogmaticheskoe-bogoslovie/8
“Demonized” – I think this is not true, but I can express my amateur guess about some roots of “specialness”.
In some works devoted to the life of ancient tribes (for example, Propp “Roots of a Fairy Tale”), a certain “Men's house” is often described as the first internal community (club), among different peoples and on different continents.�
These are such large huts, or simply fenced areas, where boys from adolescence to marriage spent time learning and learning skills from older men.
Women, with some exceptions, were forbidden to enter, or simply not interested, not needed, and only later banned, in order to emphasize the isolation of this “house”.
I haven't seen any mention of” women's homes”. Most likely, this is due to the fact that in early cultures, “men's skills” – hunting and defense – were more complex than “women's” and required the creation of a similar prototype of a normal school, and later an ESOTERIC school (when this “men's house” began to branch out into a military department, occult and political-very roughly speaking).�
…this is where we finally get to the answer. Probably, the tradition of a certain “special status of women” could have migrated from ancient occult organizations, into which “men's houses” evolved over time, as some echo, to modern religions, where this “specialness”continued to exist.
these are all local excesses – Christianity itself teaches that both are guilty of the fall, and both are punished. Another thing is that Christianity also teaches that a woman is often a weaker vessel, more gullible, so she is assigned a leading role in the family and in the church, but this is not the demonization of a woman, but the distribution of service according to gifts and vocation. At the same time, the idea is often instilled to love wives ( women), to give them honor and respect. No infringement of rights, no reason to manipulate, to harass, to consider a woman a second-class person, the Bible does not give humiliation. Well, there are kinks in everything – тес the gates are narrow and the path leading to Life is narrow and few find them(c)