“Agriculture Needs More Women” by Sonia Faruqi, is an article published by The Atlantic on September 25, 2013. This article expresses the agriculture industries dire need of women for gender based equality and their capability to empathize animals. Faruqi persuades and informs women with factual compliments about their ability to ultimately improve agriculture. Relatable and easily understood, while using all three appeals of rhetoric, Faruqi’s message is efficiently conveyed.
Faruqi establishes her departure from the “safe world of suits and spreadsheets and skyscrapers” to “the unpredictable, dangerous one of farm fields and factories.” Her ventures led her to eight countries, which include the following: The United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, …show more content…
The study states that the greatest difference between men and women is sensitivity. Another study, published in the journal Brain and Cognition in 2011, demonstrates that men and women differ in their capacity for compassion. Other studies conclude that women are more empathic than men, both psychologically and neurologically. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book On Human Nature, scientist E.O. Wilson describes how interpersonal differences between men and women become evident as early as birth, with baby girls smiling more than baby boys, for instance. A 2008 Pew research poll of more than 2,000 Americans found that 80 percent believe women to be more compassionate than men. In addition, Americans rank women as more honest, emotional, intelligent, and creative than men, while being equally hard-working and ambitious. In addition, women are more likely to purchase organic food, think about food safety, and evaluate health, nutrition, and sustainability in making their dining decisions, according to the 2013 Food & Health Survey. Salmonella: the 2013 Food & Health Survey finds that women are more likely than men to believe that “food with Salmonella cannot be made safe.” (para. 7,8,9,10,12, and
Faruqi establishes her departure from the “safe world of suits and spreadsheets and skyscrapers” to “the unpredictable, dangerous one of farm fields and factories.” Her ventures led her to eight countries, which include the following: The United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, …show more content…
The study states that the greatest difference between men and women is sensitivity. Another study, published in the journal Brain and Cognition in 2011, demonstrates that men and women differ in their capacity for compassion. Other studies conclude that women are more empathic than men, both psychologically and neurologically. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book On Human Nature, scientist E.O. Wilson describes how interpersonal differences between men and women become evident as early as birth, with baby girls smiling more than baby boys, for instance. A 2008 Pew research poll of more than 2,000 Americans found that 80 percent believe women to be more compassionate than men. In addition, Americans rank women as more honest, emotional, intelligent, and creative than men, while being equally hard-working and ambitious. In addition, women are more likely to purchase organic food, think about food safety, and evaluate health, nutrition, and sustainability in making their dining decisions, according to the 2013 Food & Health Survey. Salmonella: the 2013 Food & Health Survey finds that women are more likely than men to believe that “food with Salmonella cannot be made safe.” (para. 7,8,9,10,12, and