The man in his own house has a status that is totally erased in a mixed group.
All mixed social activity (outside perhaps extended families) needs to be well organized according to rules, otherwise all sorts of evils caused by social manipulators will rise up. Worst of all is when a crowd of demonstrative women are permitted to undermine the position of the men.
This is what happens when the patriarchal system is replaced by the social intercourse of the salon - and its crass vulgarization - the contemporary school/workplace - the man who tries to honestly deal with the mixed group must be exceeding careful and tactful, if he fails to observe the rules the crowd of women set, speaks too frankly . . .
. . . these are secrets which you must keep inviolably, if you would not, like Orpheus, be torn to pieces by the whole sex; on the contrary, a man who thinks of living in the great world, must be gallant, polite, and attentive to please the women. They have, from the weakness of men, more or less influence in all courts; they absolutely stamp every man's character in the beau monde, and make it either current, or cry it down, and stop it in payments. It is, therefore, absolutely necessary to manage, please, and flatter them: and never to discover the less marks of contempt, which is what they never forgive;
- Lord Chesterfield.
The Church is the last place where this sort of social dynamic should be in the ascendant. It's supposed to be a refuge from that sort of thing, where order and common sense are maintained for the worship of God, rather than to be violated by the whims of women.