In our very recent past, women were considered the property of men in the Christian world, as well.
When a woman married, all her assets became her husband's and he had all control. If she ran away from a wife beater, he owned the children and she could not have them.
I detest the Christian marriage ceremony, albeit most of our young have sense enough to change it. About half of my granddaughters did. When they ask who giveth this woman, the reference is that she has to be owned by SOME man, be it her father or her grandfather or uncle or brother. She has to be SOME man's property. And she is being passed, usually by a contract she may have had no say in whatsoever, to her husband as property.
So we are not all that far ahead in our culture. I do consider it a blessing to live in this more advanced culture; that is a given. But we have a long way to go yet.
One of my granddaughters who absolutely adores my son, her daddy, came down the aisle alone rather than give a nod to the inference that she was his property. Several others had both parents escort them down the aisle.