Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
That series is about court scheming, politics, trade, governance, spying, and such. If it was shoujo/josei, the female MC actually wouldn't be doing 10% of all the stuff she's doing now, having instead dudes all around her doing the stuff for her.
You really need to start reading A Stepmother's Märchen and more modern josei/shoujo. They're not all passive otome game style with men throwing themselves at the protagonist. Looking into it further, KakaoPage that hosts the series, is almost entirely shoujo. But it certainly isn't a series that I'd call a shoujo anyway, definitely josei. Yes, it is a redo series and not a isekai, but all the same.

For example, Margaret as a shoujo magazine has always been full of active leads.