Eve's sentence in the Torah is brief. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on (Genesis 3:16) weighs it. "Multiplying, I will multiply thy affliction by the blood of thy virginity, and by thy conception; in sorrow shalt thou bear children, and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he will have rule over thee unto righteousness or unto sin."
The last phrase softens the harshness of the Hebrew. The husband's rule is not absolute authority over the wife's will. It is a responsibility that cuts both ways: he can lead her toward righteousness or toward sin. The Targumist refuses to let the verse be a charter for tyranny. It is a description of influence, and influence runs in both directions. A husband who leads his wife to sin is answerable. A husband who leads her to righteousness is fulfilling something sacred in the relationship.