SJS, you’re right. Does anyone think they were sitting an entire day in their one room tents or huts? in fact that’s what I think the Rambam meant with women not going out of their houses more than two times a month. I think he meant they shouldn’t leave their chatzer.
If the women today will not sit outside who will watch the little kids? I see little kids roaming without anyone taking care of them. I don’t think it’s a tznius problem if the mother or older sister is outside watching him.
We need to remember that the denser we build and the bigger families there are the more these issues will crop up.
So women should really have the seichel not to sit on steps of entrances to biuldings or apt., in middle of the sidewalks or talk and laugh too loudly.
But as the saying goes, “if you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen”. In other words if someone doesn’t like to live in Yentatown, don’t buy a condiminium or a sandwich of a house that’s squashed between tons of people!