Slaughter uses framing in her essay to help organize and convey her message , framing is the process of describing the perspective from which a writer argues. Framing includes, identifying the position for a particular argument, explaining the idea of the argument, and then further explanation of the details. When Slaughter wrote the essay, she knew the perspective was going to be meaningful to those battling the balance of family, therefore she started off talking about the difficulty of being “Away from [her] son when he clearly needed me”(Slaughter 677). Slaughter introduces the concept of why women “can’t have it all” with a relevant example of the difficulty of balancing the life of having a child and succeeding professionally. Slaughter
