Slaughter

When comparing Anne – Marie Slaughter, the author of “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All”, and Ellen Ullman, the author of “How to be a Woman Programmer”, both possess a strong feminist perspective within their writing. In their articles, both female authors touch a nerve across generations, among both men and women, that has set off a new public debate on women’s progress and work-life balance. Slaughter and Ullman both agree that society still considers the woman to be the primary caregiver within the relationship. Due to these views, both women are combating sexism within the workplace, but, despite this, both are strong, career driven women.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is about two men, Lennie Small and George Milton, who travel place to place, job to job to pay for their dream. They end up on a ranch where they meet many people, including Curley's Wife, the only woman on the ranch. Steinbeck utilizes Curley’s Wife to prove that women didn’t have any chance of acquiring the American Dream because of the sexist society in the 1930’s.

Over time, women have slowly gained more and more rights. They have become more prominent in society, making more decisions that influence their lives, as well as the lives of other people. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston highlights how the gender roles of men and women differ including women being less powerful than men, how Janie had the strength and determination to gain her own happiness, and how stereotypical roles should not play a part in society.

The Chicana feminist is not widely accepted, or even recognized. At its best, Chicana writers and artists take to paper and other mediums to share the message. Writers, such as Andzaldua, comment on the necessity for writing. The Chicana expression of creative thought, otherwise unnoticed by the majority of people, is important in that it allows people to show the struggle, emotion, and wisdom surrounding personal experience (Andzaldua). Poetry, for instance, can be described as a political act, which enables further thought and understanding between people. Additionally, these stories reveal the great diversity among women.

In nearly all historical societies, sexism was prevalent. Power struggles between genders mostly ended in men being the dominant force in society, leaving women on a lower rung of the social ladder. However, this does not always mean that women have a harder existence in society. Scott Russell Sanders faces a moral dilemma in “The Men We Carry in Our Minds.” In the beginning, Sanders feels that women have a harder time in society today than men do. As the story progresses, he begins to understand why he thinks in the manner that he does. Sanders does an excellent job of showing how his thinking changes as the text progresses. He does this through his brilliant use of interior monologue and personal anecdotes.

In her essay, “The Importance of Work,” from The Feminine Mystique published in 1963, Betty Friedan confronts American women’s search for identity. Throughout the novel, Betty Friedan breaks new ground, concocting the idea that women can discover personal fulfillment by straying away from their original roles. Friedan ponders on the idea that The Feminine Mystique is the cause for a vast majority of women during that time period to feel confined by their occupations around the house; therefore, restricting them from discovering who they are as women. Friedan’s novel is well known for creating a different kind of feminism and rousing various women across the nation.

In the 1970’s women were expected to stay at home and take care of the household. They were usually not expected to further their education, but instead take care of the children or tend to their husbands’ needs. In 1972 Judy Brady decided to let the readers of Ms. Magazine know how she felt about her “duties”. In her short essay, “Why I Want a Wife,” Brady uses pathos to connect and appeal to the reader’s emotions while explaining why she wants a wife.

The mention of men is either absent or regarded with topics they usually aren’t associated with. Slaughter mentions men throughout her article, however they are placed in the position of the domestic perspective, rather than the breadwinner character. She also mentions men, such as her husband, throughout her paper, and states that they are able to maintain a work-balanced lifestyle more easily than women. Her approach to regarding men seems to always place them in the light of constantly being more privileged. Although she doesn’t necessarily place a negative connotation on the topic, she makes sure to reiterate her point that “men are still socialized to believe that their primary family obligation is to be the breadwinner” (Slaughter 10) and will continue to have an easier work-balance lifestyle until women are fully in power. On the other side of the argument, Marche criticizes Slaughter’s dialogue concerning men in her article. Rather, he addresses the representation of men written in articles composed by women in general. He touches upon the fact that not only does Slaughter focus upon the subject of her husband taking over the domestic role, but also Sandberg, another woman mentioned in Slaughters article. Marche states that “men are far more anonymous-implacable opponents of progress in the upper echelons, helpless

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an equal rights activist and suffragist. Before her work as a feminist, Elizabeth was an active abolitionist with with her husband and cousin. Unlike a lot of of women’s rights activists, she focuses on much more than suffrage and voting rights. She fought many battles still fought today. Elizabeth gave a speech titled “The Destructive Male” at a women’s rights convention in Washington D.C. in 1868. This speech was delivered 20 years after her first, but you can still hear the same frustration and anger in her words. In this speech, she argues that men have a history of being selfish, angry and war-loving, therefore being destructive. She believes that women could help bring more peace into the world, “for woman knows

Starting off, Slaughter and Dorment have to establish their ethos, so they can gain trust in their readers and what they are saying is right. I think that slaughter does well establishing her ethos. She tells her audience about her education and how she rose to the top in having her dream job. She also establishes her ethos by her word choice, using intelligent words which indicate that

Why do women have to work overtime in order to obtain the equal amount of pay and provide for their family? Many women had an issue since the late 1840’s and it stills occurs today across the globe. Some men claim that women make more than them, while others admit of making more than a woman. Over all the women 's rights movement is primarily wanting the political, social, and economic status of women equal to a men (Women’s Rights Movement). Women want the ability to achieve the same opportunities of a man in the household, educational field, and in the working environment. In “Testimony”, Gloria Steinem explores the idea of not being equivalent to a man, most notably in her use of catalogue and parallelism in order to convince men, women,

Living in a society filled with standards, restrictions and ideals, yet we pertain this idea that our world is worthy. Worthy of the sacrifices women make. Worthy of the limits homosexuals follow. Worthy of the lives being controlled. Our world has experienced these perceptions through the past and the present, but will it advance through the future? In the novel The Handmaid 's Tale by Margaret Atwood, an idea of the future is shown through a dystopian society in which women are solely used for their ability to procreate as they are to please men. Men, needless to say, also have some restrictions they have to comply with, but in this dystopian society, as one would expect, women have it the worst. Yet people are just accepting what society tells them to do. And accepting what society wants you to, leads to the lack of fulfillment in life as shown through the novel’s flashbacks towards the narrator 's memorable past, and through the narrator 's interior dialogue.

The Women’s Rights Movement began July 13, 1848 in a residence where just a few women got together in Seneca Falls, New York. A declaration of Sentiment was drafted to declare equal rights to all men and women. In the beginning women were talking about social, education, economic, and the missing voice from in a political setting. In 1950 the first National Women 's Rights Convention took place in Worcester, Mass., and attracting over 1,000 women participants. The two women that stood for women rights are Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a Massachusetts teacher, met in 1850 and forged a lifetime

In 1962, Jackson, Mississippi was facing racial problems even after segregation was abolished years before. Stores, libraries, and churches were segregated and colored workers and maids had rules such as: not being able to use the same bathroom as the white families they worked for. Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help, uses the character Skeeter Phelan to oppose these morals and to attempt to share the true values of society.

The long, winding road also known as the history of women’s rights dates back long before one’s memories even begin. While women have came far today, the battle for equality continues. In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale a not so pretty picture is painted in what foreshadows a regression of all the triumphs a woman in the world today has persevered for. Women in this story are simply nothing more than a tool constantly used as a two-legged womb. Atwood writes from the perspective of Offred. The handmaid, Offred, belongs to a wealthy man named Fred and his wife, hence “Of-fred.” If you don’t marry well, you are seen as worthless. Atwood writes, “This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic,