pgs 133 - 134

I think the reasoning behind the conversation that Atticus had with Jem and Scout is Aunt Alexandra was having a problem with the way that the kids were acting and she told Atticus to talk to them and Atticus must have realized that she is kind of right. Even though Aunt Alexandra and Atticus have different ways of raising their children and different ways of living, she feels that their behavior is unexceptable. She thinks that they are acting like they are run-of-the-mill people and need to be corrected and act more like Finchs. When Scout says " It takes a woman to do that kind of work", she means that Atticus lets them do whatever they want and Aunt Alexandra has expectations on behavior and wants the kids to act like Finchs. So, she is saying that the men and women in her life have different expectations.