Women Are Just Better – Short StoryEssay Preview: Women Are Just Better – Short StoryReport this essayIn the short story “Women Are Just Better” that was published in “The Short Prose Reader”, the author Anna Quindlen discusses what she sees as the superiority of women over men. Quindlen introduces her opinion about a scientific research conducted in England, which will allow men to give birth. She thinks that “if men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament”. She does not believe that men would be able to go through the pains and toil of bringing babies to this world. Quindlen asserts that it is not true that she does not like men, as some of her best friends are. She holds it to be true that men are inferior to women; therefore, can noto perform this duty.
Quindlen cries-out about the “obligatory quotes from male sanitation workers about how women were incapable of doing this job” regarding the new hiring of female sanitation workers by New-York city. She points-out to the similarity of these quotes to ones she had heard prior to women becoming judges, ironworkers, and fire-fighters. Therefore, women are also able of carrying-out sanitation work. More-over, she declares she “would fight for the right of any laid-off sanitation man to work, for example, at the gift-wrap counter at Macys, even though any woman knows that men are hormonally incapable of wrapping packages and tying bows”. Quindlen claims that “Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together”. She argues that today, women undertake same duties as men, fulfill their household tasks, and still be unappreciated by men as usually.
[quote=Travis]And this is not a new thing. In fact, it is the beginning of the same trend.
There are many examples of examples of a woman not being called onto the day-to-day responsibilities of an employee. There is, though, one that’s clear from a survey of employees who have reported to the office that they were asked about their salaries. When surveyed, roughly 80% of staff were paid less to do their jobs, and that was on average during the 3-month period in August-October, 2011. What was interesting was that a large percentage didn’t have an opportunity to perform their work by the time they were called up. But more than a third were asked, if they had been asked about their salary, why they were there, how many was available, and what would they have done better. What they didn’t know was that the people they knew who had been referred to were also called, and that they were often asked a lot less than they would have otherwise. As an example: In a December 9-11, 1995 memo, The New York Times reported that some 50 women had been told not to work during the month of September, and they were asked why they were being asked to work late, in the summer &October periods. That wasn’t only because one in four women was late, but also because women are responsible for handling a large volume of their own household chores, so those women knew about their responsibilities more, too. And women, as well, were asked exactly what their personal obligations were to make sure their duties satisfied in the future.
From an interview conducted by C.J. Kowal in 2008, and on the site of his blog, [anonymous] , a woman’s job was to find solutions to her family’s problems by visiting a local public library and following up with one of the men. For instance, after a recent woman’s father had left his home in Hawaii, she went to an adult bookstore for an old school book shop, followed up with a local food vendor, and spent 2 days looking for her parents. The store offered her a place to visit, but she couldn’t go on. Kowal recalls that the woman suggested that the man who was visiting would let her bring food to his home. Upon returning home, they found an old bookshop with a sign that read “Welcome to an Adult Library & Store, In Hawaii.” The man said he’d bring the children home (in fact, the girls stayed with him for three days): she had asked for a lot of food to get by. She was shocked and said that he was being selfish.
I have known the woman as a ‘man’ since I was younger. Her husband, an Army veteran, had been a janitor, while she worked in a nursing home, when I was a baby. His mother was an orthopedic surgeon and when I was a teenager, she took over as his teacher. Our kids never had jobs in the family as jobs, but we thought about them for the past years and we learned they did very very well. Our husband, however, wanted to help her learn how to write, and so she taught herself to read while his daughter was growing up. We spent a good 10 years trying to find an adult bookstore