Real men are protectors and providers and they marry women who hopefully have some virtue, but also bring a lot to the table as well that are great mothers, great wives, caretakers of the home.
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are, in some degree, independent of men; nay, it is vain to expect that strength of natural affection, which would make them good wives and good mothers.
And so we have this sense on the one hand of Roman women being, as long as they stay in their sort of allocated position as dutiful wives and mothers and daughters, they are respected, they are treated nicely.
The conclusion which I wish to draw is obvious; make women rational creatures and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives, and mothers; that is — if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.