Swagger Like Us (Critical Analysis)

Swagger Like Us (Critical Analysis)

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Eng. 102.xxx
xx October 2xxxx
Critical Analysis
“Swagger Like Us”
      In her article, “Swagger Like Us,” Ann Friedman explains how women are not treated fairly like men and how women have been asserting themselves as do men do in the workplace, but have yet to receive similar respect and pay. She also points out how women have only made minimal gains in the political and professional world in the past few decades. Although Friedman initially reinforces her stand with women’s rights with interesting facts, later it becomes a biased argument with overly feminized ideas how women are supposedly better at various skills than men are.
      Friedman starts her article by telling the reader that ever since women have been making gains in the workplace in the 1970s, there has been questioning on how women can reach the same level as men. She explains that for women to be up to par with men they must oversell themselves in the interview, ask for more job raises and be more assertive at the job. She also presents the idea, “…we continue to simultaneously embrace the idea that powerful women promise to be different somehow, from powerful men” (par 3). This idea brings up the thought that woman are trying to be better than men and want to change the workplace by being different,   this is a positive step towards reaching proper respect. She also believes how it is okay sometimes to “man up” when needed to, and how women should practice this because it works and shows that one wants to climb the professional ladder.
After giving brief facts and positive ideas on how women can receive equal amount of respect and pay in the workplace, Friedman then goes on a rant on how women are already better than men in various areas with the addition of sexist remarks, although the remarks intended towards men and women, “If women ruled the world, it would be more stable, less violent, and color-coordinated” (par 3). In continuing on reading the...