Gayle Lemmon Argumentative Analysis

Women’s’ role has changed over the years. More and more woman are now joining the workforce. Each year the number of women in the workforce has increased. According to Finsterbusch, women constituted 30 percent of the workforce in 1990 and 45-47 percent of the labor force in 1995 (Finsterbusch, 57). Women also seem to be more educated than men. Finsterbusch states that women are outnumbering men in education (Finsterbusch, 58). Women face two issues concerning the workforce. Although women seem to have an easier workload in the labor force, they have to figure out a way to reduce family conflict and unemployed husbands. Anne-Marie Slaughter and Gayle Lemmon have made two arguments. Gayle Lemmon claims that women can choice to have a career and a family. Anne-Marie Slaughter argues that women cannot choose both career and family, as they will fail at either their career or raising a family. …show more content…
Lemmon supports and argument made by Sheryl Sandberg in her famous book, Lean In. Lemmon states that women should work hard at their job but also find the time to be home on time to take of their family (Lemmon, 59). If a woman is able to have a job and maintain her household, then balancing a job and family is something that a woman can handle. Sandberg and Lemmon strongly support the idea of women making decisions just as men. Lemmon says, “each of us has a say in what comes next. And that includes men” (Lemmon, 59). It is only fair that a husband and wife agree on something as opposed to just the husband making the decision without the opinion of his