*** w56 9/1 p. 530 par. 16 The Divine Origin of Marriage ***And Jehovah God proceeded to build the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and to bring her to the man." The man was overjoyed to receive and accept her at his heavenly Father’s hand, and he named her to show she was part of himself. "Then the man said: ‘This is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one will be called Woman [or Ish·shah´], because from man [or Ish] this one was taken.’" (Gen. 2:21-23, NW) God had now divided the feminine characteristics from Adam and put them in this woman or Ish·shah´ and thus produced the human sexes.
Though the man Adam had the feminine properties divided from him and embodied in his wife, he was still left perfect; he was still in God’s image and likeness.