Sunday, January 4, 2015

Impolite Conversations: Topic 2


This second topic is all about money, mostly, how money affects America. I want to talk about Cora's argument mainly because it's the one that stays the most on topic. The way she writes is very interesting to me and I think she writes very well. She uses interesting topic sentences for each of her paragraphs such as "Workplace reform often focuses on issues of race or gender", "Much is often made of how women have changed the workplace, but that is not only old news it never was news since women were always working" and "Therefor, by focusing our workplace reform efforts on the needs of working mothers, we improve the realities of our nation's families today and thus society tomorrow" (Daniels 55).

On the same topic I came up with three more topic sentences a couple pieces of evidence for each one.
Women in the workplace still seems like an astonishing idea to some men, you can tell by the wage gap and they way they're treated.

  • Based on median annual earnings for full-time, year-round workers, women earned 76.5% of men’s earnings in 2012.
The United States economy is not as good and people make it up to be.
  • 94% described the economy in negative terms.
The so called "American Dream" that is talked about so often and is praised isn't as 
American as you might think.
  • In 2012, economist Miles Corak, ... crunched the numbers and looked at a wider scope of countries and found that Japan, Singapore, and Pakistan could also be added to the list of societies with more income mobility than the United States. 

2 comments:

  1. This is a really interesting look at the united states economy, I knew that there was some gender inequality in the workplace but didn't expect a number like 94% of women describing the economy negatively. Does the book, or do you know ways that people can change such a statistic?

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  2. Trying to create more equality for all genders and races in terms of pay would help to improve people's thoughts of the economy. I think it's mostly because of the wage gap between men and women, and even a bigger gap between white men and women of color.

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