Rousseau had once said that before men and women formed families, their ways of life were almost identical. After they formed a family, this division of labor between the sexes naturally emerged. Women became steadier and quieter, while men went out to provide life's necessities for their families.
For a king, he had to ensure that his subjects had enough to eat. Napoleon had achieved this. Although the price of bread had still soared because of the famine, it had not driven people to desperate measures, and he had also searched everywhere for grain.
By comparison, the Bourbon royal family could not even manage that. Quesnay's economic reforms had brought no profit to either the townspeople buying grain or the farmers growing it. Instead, the middlemen pocketed the difference and became rich overnight.
What Rousseau meant by men managing affairs outside and women managing the home was not absolute. There were also cases where women worked outside while men stayed at home. But Georgiana agreed that married men and women should divide their responsibilities.
She did not particularly like Draco's new wife, Astoria, but she disliked his former girlfriend Pansy even more. That girl was always terrified that others might not know her opinions.
Madame de Staël, on the other hand, loved publishing books. She liked portraying the image of bourgeois women in them.
Georgiana was the sort of woman who stood behind a man. She truly could not do things that drew attention, though she also supported women governing, provided they were capable enough.
Napoleon showed her Madame de Staël's book, "Delphine." This sort of "women's novel" left her with only one thought—they did not belong to the same world, and if they ever met, they would certainly become mortal enemies.
Madame de Staël believed that when a woman's