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Women are powerful, as women, we can accomplish anything. Women can become stars, officeholders and other powerful positions in society. Ambition is a word that means you have a strong desire to achieve something, but today supposedly it has gotten a nasty streak on it. All three of these essays focus on women and how they have powerful roles in life; their jobs are high in pay. These powerful women are trying to say what is on their mind, but people instead disfavor them because of their words. People are shaming them because they have high-powered jobs that they worked tirelessly to earn that job and, consequently, decided to leave instead of staying there. Equality for all is feminism, which these articles are for that, showing how women should accomplish what they want.
These articles talk about women in important roles in life. In the first article, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All", Anne-Marie Slaughter, left her government job in January 2011. She had a rude awakening and realized it was time for her to get out. People were criticizing that she was in a high position of power to write this article. Stated from the article,
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For instance, Tory Burch is mentioned in it about her fashion company. Ms. Burch said, “They taught us that with hard work we could achieve anything,” she said of herself and her three brothers. “It was never about gender.” A few other women that are mentioned in this article would be, Julianne Moore, Melinda Gates, Gwyneth Palthrow, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Wintour and Reese Witherspoon. This article’s spotlight is more on feminism. The importance of equality is great. The term ambition shows up in this article, "But the issue of ambition and the way it is used to defame women". Ambition in the article is a term that is holding women back. Ambition, is making them seem nasty when they are just trying to meet their goals like everyone
The extent and degree of information and detail written in this article about each represented author and their contributing works can ultimately be seen as one of the articles main strengths. However, although this article gives a vast amount of information on the women’s opinions and beliefs the article at times seems disassembled and erratic. The flow of the article is somewhat hard to follow, and without an increased measure of concentration, the ability of the reader to comprehend and decipher whom the author is speaking of can be lost. Also, with the extensive amounts of information and detail that each female author contributes to the argument, readers are bombarded with data to interpret and distinguish upon. With the author of the article not decisively choosing the strongest points of argument from each author, the information becomes overwhelming and possibly confusing at times.
Anne Roiphe’s “Confessions of a Female Chauvinist Sow” first appeared in the magazine New York in 1972. In this essay Roiphe aims to convince her readers that women must put faith in the idea that they are equal to men, not superior. “Women who want equality must be prepared to give it and believe in it . . . .” Personal anecdotes, contrast, and comparison are techniques Roiphe skillfully uses to create a strong, convincing essay.
Women have long been fighting for their right to be seen as equal to men. Even to this day, women continue to fight for their rights, things such as the right to non-gender discriminatory wages. While there may be some arguments over the state of gender equality in the modern world, it is undeniable that there have been great strides made toward recognizing the female 's worth in the workforce and as a human being. Despite these strides, however, things are still not yet ideal for women and many of the issues females face today are the very same issues that have been plaguing them for decades. While it is unfortunate the oppression of women has been so long-lived, the length of that exposure has thankfully enabled many talented writers to both lament over the fact and emphasize the need for gender equality.
In this paper I will talk about how Gilman, Cooper and Collins think about progress for women. Analyzing their writings, I will compare and contrast their initial concerns and focuses on progress for women, explanations of the causes of gender inequalities, and ideas of future activism. I will discuss what they assumptions they shared in common and how they differentiated with each other specifically.
Anne-Marie Slaughter constructed the article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” including personal and statistical measures to prove that, though women have come far, they are not to the standard of men. She begins the article informing us of her job as the first female director of policy planning at the State Department in Washington D.C. Admittingly, with such a high-profile job and finding herself struggling to balance her 14-year-old son, she made the decision to quit her job after two years. Accordingly, Slaughter pondered her years working in a high power workplace, realizing
Many people have different perspectives about who can have it all. In “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” Anne-Marie Slaughter makes a point in her essay which is that you cannot have it all. However, in “Why Men Still Can’t Have It All,” Richard Dorment responds to her essay with a different opinion, and he makes arguments to prove his opinion about this topic. To understand his opinion, we are going to look at his points, how did he make the points, and my personal opinion on his argument.
Slaughter states that her main reasoning for why women can’t have it all is because they are forced to choose between a professional
Shakespeare’s play Macbeth is known for its plot twists and ambiguous words. Throughout the play Macbeth believed the witches prophecy that he would become king. Macbeth obsessed over the idea of becoming king. He began to manipulate his friends and family, and ultimately he killed himself and everyone he loved. The witches were able to influence Macbeth into believing the prophecy was true by giving him a piece of truthful information surrounded by unknowing lies. The prophecy in itself was a paradox. Much like the American paradox of women’s equality. Growing up, American women are taught that America is unlike any other nation in its equality among genders, races, and religions. Many women graduate high school and college and venture in to the work force. However, many will be shocked when they discover the different challenges they are going to face due to their gender. What’s the reason for this inequality and injustice? The fight for women’s equality is not a new battle to be fought, in actuality it has been a continuous fight in American society and politics that can be traced back before the Civil War. In today’s America, women still face pay inequality, unequal promotion opportunities, and discrimination in the work force.
Women have been a vital key to the shaping and progression of our society. Throughout time, women’s roles and opportunities in the family, workplace, and society have greatly evolved. They started from being housewives that don’t have many rights, even in the household, to being valued citizens in our
Furthermore, She provides a strong tone that evaluates the potential of a woman. She presents her speech with facts and with confidence and passion. Her tone is trying to motivate young women to act up and take action. Along the way in her speech she makes up a sarcastic tone by claiming that “[women]do not have executive ability, orderly minds, stability, leadership skills, and they are too emotional”(Chisholm, 149). The use of this tone provides affirmation that conveys young women to feel capable of doing anything that men can do. These words don’t define the potential of women nor their abilities. Women are strong, women can take anything, women are smart, women have leadership. Just like Chisholm, women have a voice to speak up and advocate for a change. Throughout her positives tones, she also presents an emotional appeal to the youth who are going to college and are struggling. In reality, some women don’t get the same opportunity as others.“...when a young woman graduates from college…she is likely to have a frustrating and demanding experience ahead of her”(Chisholm, 149). Women face challenges with their eligibility when applying to jobs. Looking for a job is not as easy for women, it takes time and persistence. Unlike men, who are seen as
Women all over the world have been mistreated for more than a century. It has been exploited throughout the world as how “women aren’t currently treated the same as men in certain situations” but it is far more beyond that. Only half of the world seems to at least know what is really happening behind the curtain. Ambiguous people have manipulated the very much realness with what is exactly taking place in our society. In this essay, I will be talking about the following things; Inequity in the workplace, “Asking for it”, Violence against women globally, Education, and The psychology of it all. These five topics need to be demanded attention. Our younger generation needs to be cognizant of what has been going on for many millenniums. Girls and women should be able to walk around at night and not be afraid, nor should they be afraid to oppose another man. There is no real justification on why women should be treated like this but there is plenty of justification on why they shouldn 't, so genuinely why is this problem happening? Some of the books that I read to have mostly validation on this paper from other human beings but also to enlighten myself even more that I already am. “Subjection of Women” by John Stuart Mill, “Created Equal: Voices on Women 's Rights” by Anna Horsbrugh-Porter, and “Equal Pay for Equal Work” by Grace C. Strachan. I chose these three texts because each one yet talks about the same thing but has a little bit of a different perspective on each. I
Gender Equality is a big issue throughout the world, but what exactly is it? Well to answer that, it is the view that everyone should receive equal treatment and not be discriminated against based on gender. Today, most women are getting treated differently compared to men. Whether it is based on pay gap, power, or strength the problem comes up. Men think they are stronger and better than women and this upsets women because it makes them feel like they don’t have a place in this world. This is where feminism comes into place. I chose this topic because I can relate to it more than the racial option, although now it could be about the same.
However, in the article, the gender stereotype is from public. Diane use data to prove female are inequality in society. “women enter corporate training programs. But only 16% of corporate officers are women, only 11.7% of 50 company directors are female and only eight corporations have female CEOs. Fewer than 15% of law partners in the U.S. are female.”
“Look at us! We’re just like everyone else. We’ve bought into the same ridiculous delusion; this idea that you have to settle down and resign from life.” (April Wheeler, Revolutionary Road). It has become a society norm that women are meant to serve housewives; to cook, clean, garden, and nurture children, even though they are much more capable of other things. The role of women is greatly overseen, as they are not perceived to be of their full potential, rather than as societies idealistic expectation. This is because men and those who are wealthy are unable to look past gender and accept women as of equal significance.
These articles provide me new and significantly important way of becoming aware and conscious in such a way that the women are not standard or commercialized as objects. Instead I think women must be perceived and have the same rights and privileges as men. This is exactly the reason that I appreciate and like these articles as they provide rational explanations about the female personal images, perceptions, self-awareness, and self-consciousness. I would say now women are more successful, powerful and recognized than in the past. As being the essential ingredient of a society, they have to work along with men to prove themselves. I think that they have to overcome many difficult situations.