DID THE MALE AUTHORITY OVER WOMAN COME BEFORE OR AFTER SIN?

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[*]Did the male authority over woman come before or after sin?
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The creation narrative includes important elements indicating that Adam’s authority over Eve was before the fall:
1-“For Adam was first formed, then Eve ” (1 Timothy 2:13). “For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.” (1 Corinthians 11:.
The Apostle Paul uses the temporal order of creation as one ground of his argument against a woman’s exercising authority over a man in church “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”(1 Timothy 2:12). This indicates– under the guidance of the Holy Spirit–that the order of creation betokens male authority over females in terms of roles in the church. Adam’s being created first and Eve later (Genesis 2:7, 18, 22-24) implies that Adam properly had some sort of authority over Eve instilled at creation.
2-Adam named both the animals (Genesis 2:19-20) and the woman (verse 23) whom God brought before him.
In Biblical thought, to give something its name is to exercise authority over it; thus, as the nineteenth-century Hebrew scholars C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch point out, “Adam is to become acquainted with the creatures, to learn their relation to him, and by giving them names to prove himself their lord.”
Similarly, Adam’s naming Eve meant his exercising authority over her. After the fall animals resisted the authority of man.  John Calvin points out in his commentary on Genesis 1:18-20. “ Similarly, Eve’s resistance to Adam’s authority is also rooted in the fall”.