What Is Hillary Clinton's Persuasive Speech

Hillary Clinton’s speech at the 4th World Conference was very persuasive because she spoke to the struggles that women experience on a daily basis. More importantly, she didn’t just address the issues within her home country, rather, she spoke to the issues that women experience worldwide such as being denied the right to vote, domestic abuse, unfair job markets, etc. She also provided a very noteworthy statistic that women make up half of the world’s population, but 70% of the world’s poor, and two-thirds of those who are not taught to read and write. This technique that she used gathered the interest and buy in from women all over the world because it was something that they could all easily relate to. She made a very clever move by tying in womens rights with human rights. By doing that, she also gained the support of the leaders of the United Nations as human rights is one …show more content…
She was very calm and poised while delivering her message, but at the same time, she was very sincere. Her body language drew my attention and caused me to listen closer to her speech. It’s very hard to argue against Hillary Clinton’s speech advocating for women’s rights, which is why I find it to be very persuasive. There’s one thing in this world that hardly lies, and that’s numbers and statistics. Women in the past have experienced oppression that’s ranked up there with racial discrimination. This speech that Hillary Clinton delivered in 1995 was obviously effective because women at current day are just as equal in society as men are. The number of women owned businesses has skyrocketed, and women are experiencing freedom like never before. I can especially relate to this because in my workplace I have four people who are above me, and they are all women. However, I don’t have a problem with it because it signifies just how far we’ve come, and the direction that we’re going, which is equality for