Women's role in to kill a mockingbird are clearly defined. maudie atkinson and scout both seem to challenge and yet accept these confines. how?

In To Kill a Mockingbird, the subject is aimed to how women should be considered in a world and a period that is not kind to them. Mauide and Scout are in an eager inner fight to discover that a woman is not only a tool or a person with no rights no matter their race or skin color. Scout realizes what being female means but she challenges that position as a result of  several female characters influence her development.She is between being only a southern girl but becoming a feminist which contrasts acceptance and a challenge attitude