The Pharisees are known to have had a prayer thanking God for not having been born a Gentile, a woman or a lesser man. Something like that. Women weren't allowed into the temple's inner court either. If a man was seen speaking to a woman alone (and it wasn't some old lady) there would be a possible assumption that he had some sexual inclination toward her. Women were secondary, even tertiary, in most of Jewish society due to the Traditions of the Elders (what is today known as "Oral Torah", ie "not from God at all but Rabbis claim it's equal to Torah in inspiration").
Jesus disregarded all the false rules and regulations of the Pharisees' traditions. He spoke privately with women, embraced compassionately even the most wretched of women and went into women's homes, all to speak with them about repentance and the truth. Among his intimate followers were a group of women from various walks of life--previously demon possessed, former whores, aristocratic types, etc. One of them, Mary Magdeline, even regarded Jesus with the kind of innocence that would lead her to hug him when she saw he'd been raised from the dead, something none of his disciples even dared to do. He forgave, ate with and loved all sinners, including female sinners, and never once placed women as secondary beings to men, something only the Pharisees' traditions did (as far back as Genesis and throughout women were not secondary creatures; they had different roles and were subject to their men but never like the Pharisees regarded them; they were equally made in God's image after all).
For showing such equality and personal heart to women, Jesus was labeled a womanizer and pervert. To this day the Talmud lists Jesus (referenced as YESHU (shorthand for the most severe curse, the yamakh shemo (lit. "may his name and memory be blotted out forever") as what we'd today call a sex pest.
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