The correct answers are A) The Marquis of Condorcet.
The woman that wrote a 1790 essay arguing that any difference between the ability of men and women to participate in government was due to women’s lack of access to education was The Marquis of Condorcet.
The Marquis of Condorcet or Mari-Jean Antoine-Nicolas-de Caritat (1743-1794) was a French philosopher that lived during the Enlightenment times. She always supported women’s right and demanded better education opportunities for women. Indeed, she wrote a 1790 essay arguing that any difference between the ability of men and women to participate in government was due to women’s lack of access to education. With her revolutionary ideas, she influenced many thinkers of the epoch.
