Here's the challenge for the Christian woman: maintaining her purity and yet somehow cultivating an awareness of how men operate.

To work this out in the specifics is more than a little difficult. In my own Christian walk I've gone from the extremely egalitarian type (at one point in time I would have been all for the idea that one should divide up the house chores evenly) to now being the "oppressed evangelical". I like the idea of being barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.
Now, I've done some not-so-respectable things to get me to this point all while following Christ. I have done some of these things to attempt to understand men and how they operate.

While I have realized error in my ways, at the same time I wouldn't have been able to learn what I have learned and appreciate what I now appreciate about the opposite gender.
There are is strong tension that is to be held and a tight rope that one must walk in order to maintain her purity and not fall into the tempting thought of "men are pigs".