I do think a lot of myth is an attempt to explain natural events and the human condition, but it could be a bit more complicated than that, but the interpretation of Genesis of explaining the origin of sin, and hence, the human condition isn't a universal one.
That's one way of looking at it, but even the idea of childbirth being painful and women getting the short end of the stick biologically speaking is definitely thought to be a mindset of patriarchal societies that tended to think of the feminine aspects of God or gods as inferior, and the warrior aspects as superior.
Before the Bronze Age, there's evidence that female deities were considered at least equal to male, as women were more revered as life giving entities and the female gods as more vital.
When humans in the middle east moved on to the more patriarchal modes, the warrior aspects became a lot more revered, and if you were a monotheist, you had to decide if the male or female aspect of God was more important, because you could no longer split God up into different individual aspects like polytheists can.
At that time in the Middle East, warrior gods were a big deal as humans had moved into a very violent period of almost constant tribal warring. So, female aspects got kicked to the curb and bring on the thunder gods! They remain in small bits and pieces here and there, (like the female personification of wisdom in Proverbs and in some of the poetic expressions of Psalms) but mostly, it's Jehovah of Armies, a very warriorlike entity being revered by the Hebrews.
People have been confused about whether the Biblical God is a touchy feely sympathetic, rather feminine God (Jesus was often portrayed as rather effeminate in Christian art of various periods) or the Warrior God, a very uber masculine aspect ever since.
All reflections of humans themselves, really. Rather stereotypical reflections, as ultra nurturing femininity or violence glorifying uber masculinity.
