In the final four paragraphs (beginning “the education of ”), what test does the author propose for judging the value of educating women?

The test that the author proposes for judging the value of educating women, is by being funny and using it in a satire-like fashion. There is a form of belief that this will somehow make the women more masculine to the men, and more relative to the situation.

Idon’t understand this and wym