The women in this book are so strong and clear minded. But the men are so confused and burdened. Dostoyevsky's females and males do differ though, and I think there is a male-female dischotomy here.
Women tend to be far more self-sacrificing than males are, especially when it's for a male.
Sonia will prostitute herself for her family, while her father goes out and drinks up what she brings home instead of attempting to do something about the problem, So will Raskolnikov's sister, whose marriage is just a legalized and sanctioned form of protstitution, but Raskolnikov wouldn't do that. Even the motive for the murder of the pawnbroker, which could have been logically for the money, turned out to bbe for a principle instead. On the other hand, males tend to be more aggressive and strike out at the other, instead of contemplating any sort of self-sacrificing act. The women in this book are so strong and clear minded. But the men are so confused and burdened.