Educating the Girls but not the "Women"

What was the benefit for leaving out the "women/other" from being educated and Christianized and focusing on the men, boys and girls? The men were educated to work for the colonizers and the children to form them into good, Christian, law-abiding citizens of the newly born society. Why not educate the entire population if you are trying to "facilitate evangelization"? (129) The reading states that, "the African family system was to be targeted for reform and, in turn, to be the vehicle for the 'civilization' of these societies."(129) It also goes on to state, "There was no place for women in these professions except as wives, as helpmates to their husbands, which indeed was the role of the few women missionaries."(129) While a page later it gives the excuse of the colonizers having a "vested interest in producing mothers who would be the foundation of Christian families"(130), that doesn't really help maintain control of the society they are trying to form as a whole. When you are trying to control a group you deem as "savages", why not try to educate and reform them as a whole? I do hope the educated girls were treated better than "other" once they were formed into the good citizens they were to be molded into. What a far cry from the days of Khadijah and Cleopatra.