AUTHOR. Why ought woman to hold a place among civil functionaries? READER. Because society, represented by these functionaries, is composed of two sexes; Because even now in a number of public functions, there is a department more especially belonging to woman; Because, in the ceremony of the marriage celebration for instance, if woman does not appear as magistrate, not only is society insufficiently represented, but the wife may regard herself as delivered up to the power of a man by all the men of the country. AUTHOR. Why ought woman to have her place in boards of trade and mercantile associations? READER. Because she shares equally in industrial production; Because she shares equally in commerce; Because she understands business transactions and contracts as well if not better than man; Because, in all questions of interests, she should be her own representative. AUTHOR. When will woman become the equal of man in the employment of her activity and of her other faculties? READER. When she shall have colleges, academies and schools for special instruction, and when all vocations shall be accessible to her. AUTHOR. Why ought women to receive the same national education as men? READER. Because they exercise a vast influence over the ideas, sentiments and conduct of men, and because it is for the interest of society that this influence should be salutary; Because it is for the interest of all to enlarge the views and elevate the sentiments of women, in order that they may use their natural ascendency for the advancement of progress, of truth, of good, of moral beauty; Because woman has a right, like man, to cultivate her intellect, and to acquire the knowledge bestowed by the state; Because, lastly, as she pays her part of the expenses of national education, it is robbery to prohibit her from participating in it. AUTHOR. Why ought woman to be admitted to academies and professional schools? READER. Because Society, not having a right to deny the existence of any aptitude among its members, has consequently no right to prevent those who claim to possess them from cultivating them, nor to lock up from them the treasures of science and practice which are at its disposal. Because there are women who are born chemists, physicians, mathematicians, etc., and because these women have a right to find in social institutions the same resources as man for the cultivation of their aptitudes; Because there are professions practised by women who need the instruction that is interdicted them. AUTHOR. Why ought every field of occupation to be accessible to woman? READER. Because woman is a free being, whose vocation no one has a right to contest or to restrict; Because she, no more than man, will enter vocations forbidden her by temperament, lack of aptitude or want of time; and it is therefore quite as unnecessary to interdict them to her as to those men who are unfit to enter them.