I think so. A lot of women have some kind of perverse obsession with crime, I think it goes along with a kind of generalized anxiety of the world coupled with a persecution complex.

There's definitely some value to be had in the discussion of extremist religious groups and their imposition of strict sexual rolls however. The Christianity imagined in the book is not very common, and you'll find such strictly sex segregated churches to be few and far between, and you'll also find that in most of them church politics is typically dominated by the women as well. The real world example of such things tends to be most apparent in Islam.

There's a general idea that such things are caused by men imposing a patriarichal system upon the women. I suppose there's truth in this view, though I've always found it odd that the general pop culture view of the Arab girl is the sexy scantily clad dancer with maybe the smallest veil imaginable. I suspect that men everywhere prefer that the women around dress in a way more appealing to the "male gaze" so part of me wonders if there isn't a huge element of female oppression in such things. In my own life the most oppressive authoritarians I've met are women. Usually demanding some inconsequential task be done exactly as they say for no reason other than to reenforce their authority. Perhaps when these types are combined with biological reality of jealously and sexual competition, such "prudishness" is actually a way to socially bully other women into submission so they aren't in a position to compete sexually for a mate.