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"Why Women Still Can't Have It All" - Slaughter, "Why…
"Why Women Still Can't Have It All" - Slaughter
It's difficult for women to juggle a career as well as personal life/home life. Especially because, some women are single moms or don't work flexible hours.
"In short, the minute I found myself in a job that is typical for the vast majority of working women, (and men), working long hours on someone else's schedule, I could no longer be both the parent and the professional I wanted to be." (Slaughter 681)
Women have to separate their personal lives from their professional personas due to discrimination in the work place that deemed the coexist of these two things as women not prioritizing work.
"Women have contributed to the fetish of the one-dimensional life, albeit by necessity. The pioneer generation of feminists walled off their personal lives from their professional personas to ensure that they could never be discriminated against for lack of commitment to their work." (Slaughter 687)
The work force should recognize that women are mothers, wives, etc. and have their own lives as well a professional persona so that the work force can be improved.
"We'll create a better society in the process, for all women. We may need to put a woman in the White House before we are able to change the conditions of the women working at Walmart." (Slaughter 695)
"Why Men Can't Have It All" - Dorment
Men sacrifice a lot due to having careers that leads them to miss out on things in their personal lives because they have no time due to usually being the breadwinners of their family. No one would want to experience the life of a father who works long hours.
"Allow me to paint another picture. One in which women are asked to make the same personal sacrifices as men past and present--- too much time away from home, too many weekends at the computer, too much inconvenient travel... they're doing the best that they can." (Dorment 701-702)
Households chores can split equally between men and women in families so that it's not always women who are keeping the house clean. Men should be more willing to participate in doing chores.
"It is a real issue, and it is something you really have to work at. You have to try and make sure that you're doing the other stuff around the house in a way that's fair and equal." (Dorment 705)
No bond with a child despite what parent it is is deeper than the other. Both men and women sacrifice time with their children due to having a career.
"The trouble with probing men's and women's emotional relationship with their children is that the subject is fraught with stereotypes and prone to specious generalities... I've learned that one parent's bond with a child isn't inherently richer or deeper than the other parent's." (Dorment 708)
"The Plight of Young Males" - Saul Kaplan
Education should prepare students by giving them information that will help them be successful in the workplace in today's society.
"In some way, we must turn schools into places that recognize the specific learning needs of young men and help them prepare for the 21st-century jobs." (Kaplan 735)
The idea that is the best example of persuasive writing is the idea about education not fulfilling the learning needs of every student from Kaplan's essay. I was very convinced by Kaplan's essay due to the use of statistics and facts that he incorporated in order to shine a light on the effects that men underperforming in education have on the economy. This specific idea was persuasive because, before the quotation, Kaplan utilizes a statistic about the number of men from different races who are out of work due to a previous recession. Kaplan then asserts that things will only get better if the education system is adjusted to make sure that students (men) are successful when they enter adulthood. The progression of the essay from facts into an assertion helped persuade me into taking interest in the context of the essay and want these things done so that men are more prepared for careers.
Education should consider the learning needs of each and every student rather than having a generalized way of teaching students so that every student can reach their goals.
"The United States has transformed its education system from a one-size-fits-all pipeline responding to the learning needs of all young men and women in the same way to an individualized approach where every student can find his or her own pathway." (Kaplan 734)
Men are underperforming in education due to an education gap between men and women.
"The gender achievement gap is astounding. The average 11th grade boy writes at the level of the average 8th grade girl. A growing education gap has profound consequences for the economy." (Kaplan 733)