Anne-Marie Slaughter Argument Analysis

Before Title IX was passed in 1972, women were prohibited from getting education and did not receive the same opportunities as men in the workplace, thus the conventional consensus is that women are treated unfairly in the workplace. But Anne-Marie Slaughter, the president of New America, a think tank and civic enterprise, asserts that the work system is unfair to both men and women in general. Even though Slaughter does not give coherent solutions on how to fix the unfairness of the workplace, her strong organization and incorporation of specific examples overall makes her argument convincing and appealing to the audience.
Slaughter manages to make her argument pursuable by structuring her article a certain way. In the beginning of the article, the author states that the nation is losing women because women have to balance their work and family life and how the work system does not give them equal opportunities to do so (Slaughter). In other words, after reading the beginning of the article, the readers assumes that the …show more content…
For example, the author points out that “the workplace is designed for the Mad Men era, for Leave it to Beaver families.” Slaughter is insisting that the change is the society that has happened such as the breaking of gender norms (women and men both doing housework and outside work now) does not work with the work system that was established when gender roles were strict. The author also supports her claim by including the findings of the study done by professors at the Harvard Business School. The professors found that “an equal number of men and women had left the firm on the preceding three years...some men also left because of the long hours” and with this statement the author acknowledges that the culture of overwork is unfair to men and women because of numerous, tedious