Women in this picture are given to earthy, lower, less elevated thought and activity. Notice how terribly different the picture of women is in the Victorian era. Women were delicate, elevated, and much more pure than men. Men bear more of the taint of original sin than do women. Women don t think about sex, men do.
Men are coarser, cruder, rougher.
We have two radically opposed views of women. In this period women were seen as being just as good as men, as being capable of whatever men could do. This phase had a lot of features, but it was essentially egalitarian. It involved praise of women and women s features. Women are seen generally as connected with children and somewhat tainted by them.