Rhetorical Analysis Of Professionss For Women By Virginia...

Rhetorical Analysis Argument â€Å"Professions for women† is a summary of the speech Virginia Woolf gave to the members of the National Society for Women’s Service telling about her start as a writer, â€Å"the Angel in the House†, and her ideas on what women can do to continue to further themselves. Throughout Woolf’s essay she often uses two rhetorical appeals Ethos and Pathos to narrate her journey and persuade her audience to see the great success women have accomplished. The first time I read this I honestly didn’t like nor understand this writing. I felt that she was undermining herself when she said â€Å"It is true I am a woman; it is true I am employed; but what professional experiences have I had?†(Woolf) after that sentence I pretty much†¦show more content†¦Upon reading this many more times I have come to realize that she was saying more that if her career in literature, that for a long time has been established as neutra l is challenging for her then it must be incredibly difficult to overcome a male dominated career such as a doctor or lawyer especially if you do not come from a positive background. One of her claims is that women still have to try just a little bit harder than men to get the same things in life. I agree I think that even though it’s not openly expressed and not quite as dramatic, women are thought of as lower or inferior to men most of the time. To make her claim stronger I think she should have put a few facts or statistics about job placement between gender and population. In Jessica Schieder and Elise Gould’s article â€Å"†Woman’s Work† and the gender pay gap† they believe that woman’s inequality is still very much an issue saying â€Å"Women are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men† and â€Å"Serious attempts to understand the gender wage gap should not include shifting the blame to women for not earning more. Rath er, these attempts should