[akuluouno]

The Oriental Brothers may not be original in this but it was in one of their classics that they sang that the beauty (glory) of a woman is her husband. Ditto they added that a nation where a woman is queen that the nation is finished. Fela also in his chartbuster, Lady, eulogised the vices of African (Nigerian woman).
Be that as it may, I thing the Igbo woman has come along way. The proverb that a dog trained by a woman ends up eating eggs (Gentleman Mike Ejeagha in his masterpiece "Obiakor") was meant to show the depth of the maternalistic and affectionate feelings ususally exhibited by women. The other proverbs were never meant to denigrate women. Afterall there are proverbs which also deal with old men, youth and adults. For instance a disobedient son is always warned that a child who attempts to lift up his father will be lashed and blinded by many things including something that looks like a ball on sling.
Recall that you play with umuada or umuokpu or women in a traditional Igbo society at your own peril. They have ways of exerting influence and moral authority. So far reaching were the powers of women in those days that a shrine in Obeledu warned that if he does not impregnate a man, women will not learn to be fearful of him. I know that many communities have made giant progress to eliminate the barriers that make women sad in their communities.