Saint Thoman Aquinas, Summa Theologia (13th Century Doctrine of the Catholic Church); as excerpted by Martha Lee Osbourne in Women in WesternThought (Random House) 1979, pgs 68-69:

"(OBJ. 3) - ...Occasions of sin should be cut off. But God foresaw that the woman would be an occasion of sin to man. Therefore He should not have made woman...

(Reply OBJ 3) - If God had deprived the world of all those things which proved an occasion of sin, the universe would have been imperfect..."