What roles were women expected to fill during the Gilded Age? Did this in anyway affect their choices?

The Gilded Age, historically speaking, is made up of a
social group that is  no different than the Georgian, Victorian, nor Edwardian England
in terms of the expectations of women's roles.

During this
time, as it is evidenced in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
women obtain their benefits through marriage, and are expected to fulfill the
roles of doting wives. This, however, differs from the previous eras in that the Glided
Age does not have to deal with the financial inadequacies of the British rule. Instead,
the Gilded Age is the poster child of capitalism: Those who have,
are.

Hence, women in good marriages during the Gilded Age
are your typical socialites who enjoy their own or their husband's riches, enjoy
themselves in exquisitely sumptuous extravagances, and have no shame of enjoying their
sex lives outside of the marriage. In an age of excess anything is permitted as long as
it is kept secret. Therefore, the gilded age will expect women to fulfill the
traditional roles in the outside, yet it allows women to carefully exploit their goods
in the inside with the utmost delicacy.