Read the excerpt below from cooper's essay and answer the question.

the earnest well-trained christian young woman, as a teacher, as a home-maker, as wife, mother, or silent influence even, is as potent a missionary agency among our people as is the theologian; and i claim that at the present stage of our development in the south she is even more important and necessary. let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it--not the boys less, but the girls more (p. 79).

cooper believed that to advance equality

boys should have less than girls

girls should have resources equal to those given to boys

women should remain silent

women should be given the opportunity to become missionaries

D) Women she become missionaries

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The right answer is "girls should have resources equal to those given to boys

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The text says that when girls are well trained they become powerful missionaries and so it was important to recognize the potential of girls in the same way that boys' potential is recognized. That is, girls should have the same opportunities as boys, because today they have less than them, which does not mean that boys 'opportunities should be reduced, but it means that girls' opportunities should be high, because that will be achieved equality between them.

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