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Hmmm, I might have got completely the wrong end of the stick but knowing Le Guin's politics and having read some of her other work which tackles gender, it didn't come across as outright misogynistic to me. It read more as a commentary on misogyny and how women are portrayed in literature. I may be giving her too much credit though, I've not read up on it much to be honest!
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The original trilogy or those three plus the extra book she wrote years later to apologise for the misogyny of the first three? I loved those books as a kid but even then I thought "Weak as women's magic, wicked as women's magic" was a bit odd.
Still venerate the original trilogy, fwiw, despite knowing even more how dodgy they were in that respect.