" She whom Luke calls the sinful woman, whom John calls Mary, we believe to be the Mary from whom seven devils were ejected according to Mark. What did these seven devils signify, if not all the vices? It is clear, that the woman previously used the unguent to perfume her flesh in forbidden acts. What she therefore displayed more scandalously, she was now offering to God in a more praiseworthy manner. She had coveted with earthly eyes, but now through penitence these are consumed with tears. She displayed her hair to set off her face, but now her hair dries her tears. She had spoken proud things with her mouth, but in kissing the Lord's feet, she now planted her mouth on the Redeemer's feet. For every delight, therefore, she had had in herself, she now immolated herself. She turned the mass of her crimes to virtues, in order to serve God entirely in penance."

— Pope Gregory the Great (homily XXXIII)

some wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene

Many of the religious men that I knew growing up, weren't shy about suggesting that women are morally inferior. How 1400 years of men who have devoted their lives to studying the canonical books can miss or omit this mistake, is not a mystery to me. It's also not a mystery that men would want to believe it.