A Toxic Work World by Anne-Maire Slaughter examines how difficult working has become. She does this first by examining woman in the workplace, and the struggles they face in balancing work and home life, especially after they get denied leaves and days off. However, Slaughter continues to say that it's not only women facing these difficulties, but men are too. Slaughter is the president of New America, a association dedicated to renewing American politics in the information age. However, the organisation expands beyond just politics, such as new-age occupations.
The op-ed was written in order to show the issue of both gender roles in the workplace and at home, as well as to show how difficult it is to balance work and home life in our modern world. Thus, the audience must be the working class, who have experienced what is discussed in the article and would like a change from the 'quantity over quality' expectation in the workplace today, as well as the gender inequalities that are still seen today, even though two out of three households bevel that gender roles in the home are not applicable anymore, according to the article.
Slaughter appeals to her audience through a combination of ethos and pathos, as she presents many statistics and studies in order to back up her argument, while using pathos through examples to give people for her audience to relate to. Ethos and pathos are very powerful in combination, because readers are drawn in by a relatable topic, then given the facts that they might have not realized before.
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