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This question cannot be answered with a clear no. Actually the typical woman is embodied by Emma's sister Isabella: "(.); poor Isabella, passing her life with those she doted on, full of their merits, blind to their faults, and always innocently busy, might have been the model of right feminine happiness.
As explained in 'Marriage and the Alternatives', right feminine happiness would be to achieve the state of matrimony. Living in a secured home, married with children should be the goal for every woman who wanted to maintain her status in the 'genteel' class. An unmarried woman after a certain age, and even worse, an unmarried woman without money, like Miss Bates, would be unacceptable to society. It would not matter if the marriage was made out of love; it mattered if the marriage was not an imprudent one .
Emma has modern thoughts on the topic of marriage.
In conclusion one can say, that the only reason for her to marry would be to fall in love with someone superior to everybody she has met before. She does not share the usual inducements of women to marry and can live well without it, since being a single woman of good fortune.
But at the end of the novel it is the love to Mr Knightley which changes her situation; which makes her realise her mistakes and let everything come to a happy end. Does Jane Austen want to tell us that the state of marriage makes us rational?
Definitely not. Even if almost every character of importance (Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax; Harriet Smith and Robert Martin; Emma Woodhouse and Mr Knightley) marry at the end of the play, Jane Austen, who had to live her entire life under the prejudice about spinsters, would be the last person to write her novels with that intention. She simple shows the personal changes which we are confronted with during lifetime.
Emma is definitely not a role model for women in the 19th century. Instead we can take Emma as an example for the modern woman
Faultless in spite of her faults she is not a heroine whom only her creator will like much.
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