Journal article notes

My partner and I chose to write about an article found in the Women in Business Journal (Kansas City, MO).  The article is called “HOW far HAVE women COME?” by Leigh Elmore.  It is about how, although women have come a very long way over the last century, there are still many inequalities.  I think the purpose is to inform women of what these inequalities are and also to persuade women to do something, such as vote in the upcoming election, in order to push for a change and make a difference.  The audience was mostly targeted toward women, but as for the informing purpose, it can be said that the target was the general working public.  The genre is a report.  I don’t think that it is arguing for anything or analyzing the information.  It is simply reporting statistics and facts for the reader to analyze and interpret.  The author’s stance seems to be opinionated stating that “the fact that we want to discuss that Mayer is pregnant shows that we have much more progress to make,” (Leigh Elmore, 2012).  My initial response was shock.  I had an idea that there was still much inequality, especially in the military, but I had no idea that there was not only inequality in treatment, but also documented statistics showing a substantial pay gap and very low percentage of women in top positions.  Some reasons I came up with that were for this article were all the cited statistics and quotes from women of authority.  Things that could be negative are that it is somewhat one-sided and therefore possibly biased.  The first paragraph consisted of a story about how Marissa Mayer became the new CEO of Yahoo, but all people want to talk about is the fact that she is pregnant and whether or not she will work through her maternity leave.  The rest of the article if almost fully made up of quotations from people of authority such as the U.S. Labor Secretary, Hilda L. Solis and the ABWA Executive Director, Rene Street and several other important sources.  There is not a whole lot of input from the author though.