ranking of the sexes may be summarized as follows: (1) man is created first and woman last (vv. 7, 22), the first is superior (so liberal-critical scholars) or head/leader (so evangelical hierarchicalists), and the last is inferior or subordinate; (2) man, not woman, is spoken to by God and does the speaking (vv. 16–17, 23); (3) woman is formed for the sake of man, to be his “partner” or assistant to cure man’s loneliness (vv. 18–20); (4) woman is created from man’s rib (vv. 21–22), which implies