News Analysis #1
Directions: Please carefully read the article; I recommend making your own copy of it, so that you may
annotate and define terms you do not yet know. You may copy/paste text evidence from the article. Speak
with your table group members as you complete this work. Collaboration will make it much easier!
Vocab Word You Don’t Know
Definition
Sentence from Text
Ethos
The credibility/source of an
argument
The fact this article about women
in the workplace is written by a
woman
Pathos
An appeal to the audience's
emotion
Ideally, far fewer Americans
would be ground to the bone — it
wouldn’t be “lazy” to work an
eight-hour day, but normal
Logos
An appeal to the audience's sense
of logic
77.8% of prime-working-age
women were in the labor force
this past June, a record high.
1.) What is the central thesis of
the article (the main point, in
one, distilled sentence), and how
do you know?
2.) Please list THREE examples
of logical, linear data offered to
support the writer’s thesis. This
is LOGOS.
The primary argument presented in this article is that “girl trend
hashtags” particularly #lazy-girl job is demeaning, as they declare
women as out of place in a position of power, or inherently lazy.
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3.) Please list THREE examples
of appeals to emotion from the
writer. This is PATHOS.
1.
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3.
4.) Please list THREE examples
of places where the writer
supports the argument by
appealing to the readers’ ethics
and sense of identity. This is
ETHOS.
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5.) What is your reaction to the
facts the writer reveals, and why?
77.8% of working age women do, if fact, have a job (bureau of
labour statistics)
There was a record number of female CEOs in fortune 500
companies in March 2022 (Buchholz)
Presently, more women hold jobs than any time since the 1970s
(Yellen)
“ the American culture of over-work that makes so many of us
exhausted and miserable.”
“Ideally, far fewer Americans would be ground to the bone — it
wouldn’t be “lazy” to work an eight-hour day, but normal”
“The “lazy-girl job” is appropriately self-deprecating and
rejecting of ambition (by now, the girlboss is widely hated), and
therefore nonthreatening, fitting in nicely into both our
post-girlboss backlash and our post-Covid reckoning with how
we want to work and how we want to live our lives.”
“Some of us are ambitious strivers. Some of us want to work to
live, not live to work.”
“And ideally, we could stop treating the way women work as
girly trends, and focus instead on how to make our work lives
safe, fair and sustainable, so that we can have good lives away
from work — for women and men alike.”
“Women are also human, and sometimes we get burned out.”
I have no significant reaction to any of the facts presented in this article,
it is common knowledge that many higher up positions in nearly any
professional field are dominated by men, and additionally the massive,
ever-looming push for efficiency haunts everyone in western society and
beyond, so the shaming of women for choosing “easier” jobs is entirely
expected.