Witch burning is largely a myth.
Burning alive was a punishment reserved by the Clerical courts of the RC Church for Heretics.
For example Joan D'Arc was burned alive by the church, not for being a witch, but for the far worse crime of transvestism which is expressly cited as a capital offense in the holy babble.
Deuteronomy 22:5
"A woman must not wear what is appropriate to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment, because anyone who does this is detestable to the LORD your God.

The holocaust of specifically female witch hunting which became a Europe wide panic during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Though witch burnings had happened in the middle ages What we historically think of as the "Witch Hunting" era came to a pinnacle after the two Dominican lunatic Monks Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger published Malleus Maleficarum in 1486 (against the specific orders of the RC Church incidentally).
And "uppity, or unruly woman folk" needed to be put back in their place, by hanging if found guilty, drowning during witch trials (if you drowned you were innocent. If you survived, you were guilty and hanged) and or by torture with a "witches needle" which involved being stripped naked and having you skin pierced repeatedly all over by a large silver spike, in oder to find the devils mark a place on the body with no feeling and which did not bleed. Needless to say most women died of blood loss under interrogation.
The famous Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, appointed by Oliver Cromwell, was eventually dismissed by the RC church when he defied the official doctrine and threw a Catholic Priest suspected of being a witch off his own bell tower to see if he would fly. This angered the church because A he was a man and B he was a priest.
After that thing began to calm down in Europe but took off again in the Americas.

All religions are still burning down women's careers, freedom in this day and age, They have not stopped, only adjusted to the times. They will never give equality to women, A huge majority in every religion deny priesthood to women, many Hindu temples don't allow women to even enter inside, they are not allowing them even after a Supreme Court order to do so. Witch killing is still done today in many countries. Villagers recently killed a woman in 2022 in India on a suspicion that she was a witch.

As long as religions and their grip continues, women will never get their fair share. The Catholic Church still refuses to submit to law on child and other sex abuse.

With that said, the most loyal and hardcore following of religion and passing on religious beliefs to next generations is done by women. [pewresearch.org]

and today

I have no idea how many (if any) of my ancestors were affected by the European witch hunts, whether any of them refused to convert to Christianity and were slaughtered, burned or otherwise killed by the sword. I know my European ancestors claimed they were Catholic, but I do think many of them are thinkers who figured that was the safest label to give themselves under the circumstances.

I feel a kinship to those who prefer to think natural thoughts and are more scientifically minded, who may or may not have been in my family roots, buried long ago. I am glad that I only risk social ostracism by my atheist/agnostic stance in these modern times, not certain death. However, I do know that is still the case in some places.