My audience is women and men who do not understand the issue of the glass ceiling and how gender discrimination affects women in today’s society. State your position:I feel that Corporate America does discriminate against women, unknowingly.Tell your purpose:My purpose is to inform my audience of how gender discrimination affects women and what needs to be done to help prevent discrimination in the future.The appeals I use:I am writing a position and proposal paper. I am using emotions, logic and statistics. I feel there are some areas of ethics in my paper. The ethics part will have an effect on a person’sfeelings of discrimination toward women. Pam ThomasonProfessor Kenneth GeorgePrinciples of SupervisionSeptember 29, 2000Father Knows BestDoes Father really know best? In Corporate America, men seem to want full control. Our organizations have been created by men for men and they have great opposition to women infiltrating their management positions. Men have created glass ceilings for women in the workplace. A glass ceiling is an artificial barrier that allows women to see the top of the corporate ladder but at the same time denies them access to the higher rungs of that ladder. Women keep hitting their heads on the glass ceiling until they develop so many knots on their heads that eventually they give up on their goals and ambitions.Father knows best! I don’t think so! More women today have higher education with higher grade point averages than men do. In 1999, women earned 57% of all bachelors’ degrees. The sad part is that more women today choose to receive degrees in law or medical careers than in corporate business careers. This is due to the lack of female role models in Corporate America. As of March 1999, women only represented 11.9 percent of corporate officers in America’s 500 largest corporations. Men have these jobs sewn up. Most of the 11.9 percent of the offices that wome...
