How do the priestess in Gilgamesh and Eve in Genesis represent gender differently in their respective stories?

Question

The two women are represented quite differently in the two stories, but how do their roles contribute to their gender representation?

Answer 1

Lavamp, couldn't have said it better!

Answer 2

The priestess, Shamhat, in the Epic of Gilgamesh, represents the freedom of women, sexual liberation, equality of the sexes and also the important role of the Mother-aspect in society as a whole.

Eve represents almost the polar opposite: she is shown to be subservient, easily corrupted, stupid.

Unfortunately for everyone, more people took the story of Eve to heart and thought that's how things should be