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 help 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