Malcolm X when it came to women

Malcolm X treated women, since the beginning of the book. Like they're unequal or women are there just to be there. But we also have to take in consideration that in the 40's-60's women weren't being treated as equal, more or less treated as commodities for men. He truly didn't have as much regard for the emotion of the women he's been with it, for example Laura the way he just dropped her to go for Sophia. Even how he address women, but then when you look at the way Alex Haley talks about women in the epilogue and you get the sense that Malcolm wasn't the only one treating women bad or in better word unequal.