Keeping in mind that I mainly hope to share the lesson of diligence from these stories...

[She honestly thought that Emma would be frustrated with the discussion of servants at all and so now Jeanne is a little afraid of ending up Doing A Sexism instead, a field of criticism she's still not intimately familiar with]

I do not believe he never discussed a large group of men. In these two stories, it most likely made more sense to show the three people spending money as men, while the ones patiently doing a service at the hearth with supplies were women.