Personally, I believe that the statement to Eve is a product of misogynistic culture, a justification for the lack of equality between the sexes.
I grew up understanding it as a judgement against Eve: You disobeyed. You will be punished. But it can equally well -- or even better? -- be read as a regretful statement of consequences. It's not God declaring that women should be ruled over by men, it's a prediction of what's going to happen.
The lack of warning to Adam -- as you observe -- helps to give the passage a sense of being a judgement.
I also believe that our ability to hear the voice of the Divine is limited by our mental-spiritual state and our conditions. I think it's entirely possible that if God had given a warning to Adam about the backlash, the original writer might not have heard it. A backlash against men for ruling women? Inconceivable!
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I grew up understanding it as a judgement against Eve: You disobeyed. You will be punished. But it can equally well -- or even better? -- be read as a regretful statement of consequences. It's not God declaring that women should be ruled over by men, it's a prediction of what's going to happen.
The lack of warning to Adam -- as you observe -- helps to give the passage a sense of being a judgement.
I also believe that our ability to hear the voice of the Divine is limited by our mental-spiritual state and our conditions. I think it's entirely possible that if God had given a warning to Adam about the backlash, the original writer might not have heard it. A backlash against men for ruling women? Inconceivable!