Re: Why are two woman witnesses, equivalent to only one male witness in Islam ?
^ That answer is not very satisfactory.... Should we be stereotyping women as inferior when it comes to financial matters? No. Should we be stereotyping as only men being the breadwinners? No. A man's credibility should be the same as a woman.
There are men with no financial sense, and there are women with great financial knowledge. The credibility should depend on the person's knowledge (if its about taking financial decisions, if its just about being a witness then any1 can do it man or woman financially sound or not) and not the gender.
Things change, at the time of the Prophet, Men would have been the primary breadwinner so would have more knowledge of financial matter then a woman..
These days, women may be just as involved and thus just as qualified as a man, so that would no longer apply... I think the basic point is that you need qualified people to testify in such cases be they male or female.