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The Gurus in Sikhi came at a time in India when women were throwing themselves into their dead husbands funeral pyre because they were so worthless.

Imagine a slave making claim that slaves should be freed... would slave owners listen? If someone low caste claimed they deserved equality with high caste would the Brahmins listen?? If women made a claim of equality with men in that time, would the men have listened?? Of course not. However here we had high caste males saying that caste is wrong and that women are equal to men. Men of the time listened.

But with advent of Sikhism there is no post that is reserved for only males. Women can be granthis, sing kirtan, lead in ardaas, and even initiate others into the Khalsa as one of the Panj Pyaras (even though some sexism has crept back in but that happened because of Brahminical influence).

So Sikhi also came out of a highly patriarchal society but the Sikh Gurus instead of writing texts that would continue to enslave women, spoke about equality of all humans. Gurbani has not one piece of text that could suggest women should be subordinate or submissive to men.