I would say both. If you make a topic too broad you can't keep it a certain length as there is much to discuss. Which also makes adding exact details excruciatingly difficult.
The purpose or the topic of what you´re going to be writing.
Nowadays, the requirements for female writers and male writers aren't so different from each other, in terms of creative thinking. Female authors write about everything with more autonomy than in the Victorian era, where Mrs. Woolf was born. But when we speak of financial terms, there's still a difference between them.