Mrs. Watry
WRT 101
September 13, 2015
Essay 2 rough draft
In the article “Why Men Can’t Have It All,” by Richard Dorment’s, I believe he is trying to change your mind set to his on the way he thinks about men and women. And I can honestly say that my response was not affected by this. It is true as men that we have this sense of providing for our loved ones and women usually take on this role of being the nurturer but I believe the roles are vice versa. I believe that both sex are equal in all aspects as the provider and as the nurturer. Just as men cannot survive without women, women cannot survive without men. Each sex has the same opportunities I feel as well; it is just how you act upon them. Each sex can have it all! But think to yourself, what really is “having it all”? Everybody has their own definition of it, but everyone can achieve their own version of “having it all”. …show more content…
It’s an infuriating question after decades of women covering the same problem over the same old balance of work and family obligations. “All of the data suggest that men face the same problems as women do,” said Richard Dorment on page 701. On an average week, dads are spending nearly three times the amount of child care and more than double the time on housework than their dads and grandpas did in the 1960s, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the Census Bureau data on how Americans spend their time. If they have a job than chances are they are putting in more than 40 hours a week at work as well. As gender roles approach each other, so does the pressure to do it