Why religious frenzy is bad for women

I recently read a news item that described how a woman was stoned death by a group of men in Afghanistan for infidelity or some such reason. It was a bit shocking. The way to deal with infidelity would be divorce I would think in these civilized times. That got me thinking. That its not a particular religion that is mean to women. The Christians burned women for being witches and the Hindus burned them for being widows in yesteryears when religion was all too powerful. Therein lies the problem.