Ann Solis

English
21 February 2018
Period 4
Non-fiction response-Ann Hathaway
1. The main idea is to stop judging humans and to allow people to do whatever they want.
They can stay to take care of their child or they can go work no matter what gender you
are. Not be judged by other humans saying that men should be the one paying for the
house, and women staying at home taking care of the child and be a housewife. That is
not how it's supposed to go.
2. The connections I can make with Anne Hathaway speech is the women strike for
equines. What the women hit for equal ness is a nationwide demonstration for women's
rights held on August 26, 1970, the fiftieth anniversary of women's suffrage. The
leadership which is called “the unfinished business of equality.” On March 1970, Betty
Friedan called for a strike for equality, asking women to stop working for a day to draw
attention to the prevalent problem of unequal paid for women's work. Therefore, women
wanted the same equality as men.
3. The purpose that the author Anne Hathaway proposes is that women should also have
the same income as men. Anne Hathaway says that “ somehow every American parent
and we were expected to come back to normal in under three months. Without income. I
remember thinking to myself if the practical result of pregnancy is another mouth to feed
in your home and America is a country where most people are living paycheck to
paycheck, how do 12 weeks unpaid leave come to my work”(Hathaway)? She also
explains “in fact, a study in Sweden showed that every month father took paternity leave,
the mother's income increased by 6.7 percent. That's 6.7 percent more income freedom
for the whole family. Data from International Men and Gender Equality Survey show that
most father's report that they would work less if it meant that they could spend more time
with their children. How many of us here today saw our dad's enough growing up? How
many of you dads here see our kids in off now? We need to help each other if we are
going to grow.”
4. In this speech of Anne Hathaway, the audience is the reader.
A.The reason how I know that the audience is the reader is that she's talking about her personal
life and how it affects her in financial income
B.Anne Hathaway is also speaking in the first person.
5. Anne Hathaway says “as part of this announcement, Danone will implement a global 18
weeks gender-neutral paid parental leave policy for the company's 100,000 employees by the
year 2020.”
6. in this article is pathos because she shows emotions. Anne Hathaway liberates that
“equally disturbing, women who can't afford to take a full 12 weeks don't because it'll mean
incurring a motherhood penalty -meaning they will be perceived as less dedicated to their job
and will be passed over for promotions and another career advancement. In my household, my
mother had to choose between a career and raising three children -a choice that left her unpaid
and underappreciated as a homemaker- I just didn't support for both paths”(Hathaway). She
argues that her mother have to give up either work or 3 of her children. In additionally, Anne
Hathaway also exclaims that ”The memory of being in the city with my dad is a particularly
meaningful one since he was the sole breadwinner in our house, and my brothers and my time
with him was always limited by how much he had to work. And we were an incredibly privileged
family- our hardships for the stuff of other families dreams” (Hathaway). She also tells us that
she rarely saw her father in her childhood. She also expressed that “The deeper into the issue
of paid parental leave I go, the clearer I see the connection in persisting barriers to women's full
equality and empowerment, and the need to redefine and in some cases, destigmatize men's
roles as caregivers. In other words, to liberate women, we need to be liberated men”
(Hathaway). Anne Hathaway is saying that women have persisting barriers to women's full
equality and empowerment.
7. The possible theme is that we need to liberate men. The sections that led to this
conditions is that “It showed that for every month fathers took paternity leave the mother's
income increased by 6.7 percent. That is 6.7 percent more economic freedom for the whole
family that from the international men and gender equality survey shows that most father's
report that they would work less if it meant that they could spend more time with their children”
(Hathaway).
8. The speech helps me understand that even if you're a woman, you could also do the
same thing as men. Women have equal rights in having to leave the house to go work or having
to stay to take care of a child without being judged. That the financial income is not equal and
that we should do something to make it fair.
9. America is the only high-income country that does not have paid maternity leave. We
have 12 weeks unpaid, which means many people can't afford to take it. One in four American
mothers had to return to work two weeks after they have given birth because they are
economically unable to stay at home.
10. Issuing a call to action for countries, companies, and institutions globally to step up
and become champions for paid parental leave. In 2013, provisions for paid parental leave for
an only 66 countries out of 190 UN member states. I look forward to being with the UN itself
which has not yet achieved parity and who's paid policies are currently up for review. Let us lead
by example in creating a world in which women and men aren't economically punished for
wanting to be parents. I don't mean to imply that you need to have children to care about and
benefit from this issue- whether or not you have -or want -kids, you will help by living in a more
evolved world with policies not based on gender. We all benefit from living in a more
compassionate time where our needs do not make us weak that make us fully human.
Maternity leave, or any workplace policy based on gender, can at this moment in history- only
ever be a gilded cage. Though it was created to make life easier for women, we now know it
creates a perception of women as being inconvenient to the workplace. We now know it
changes Menten emotionally limited path. And it cannot by definition serve the reality of a world
in which there is more than one type of family. Because in the modern world some families have
two daddies. How exactly does maternity leave serve them? Today on International Women's
day, I would like to thank all of those who went before in creating our current policies- let us
honor them and build upon what they started by shifting our language- and therefore our
consciousness- away from gender and towards opportunity. Let us accept our parent's sacrifice
by creating a path for a more fairer, farther reaching truth to define all our lives, especially the
lives our children.