For my article I chose an argumentative piece from Brookings titled, Women are advancing in the workplace, but women of color still lag behind.” This piece of work supports the progression towards better working conditions and benefits for women of color through use of personal connection to the topic by the author, providing multiple statistics and credible sources, and through the ethos of the author being a woman of color in a position at a respected and accredited university Wingfield covers all of her bases to create a strong and effective argument. Many times when people make an argument for people of color they tend to fall into a loop of bashing white folks and creating enemies. I appreciated and liked that Wingfield was able to address her issue for women of color, also acknowledge the difficulties that white women also face, but ultimately identify that there is a lack of priveledge for women of color and that the difficulties each group faces are very different but share similarites.

 

Outline:

Intro:

• Discuss the overarching obstacles that are presented to women of color that make careers more difficult as well as contribute to the issue of underrepresentation.
• Introduce different marginalized groups of women and how their experiences differ
  • also the different document pertaining to specific ethnicities’/ races’ experiences

Body:

• Appeal to emotion:
  • authors of different works are all women of color so they speak from a deeper and unfortunately better understanding
• Logos/ Evidence:
  • all of the various sources heavily support their arguments with evidence from credible sources
  • statistics, numbers, logical comparison to the male career experience 
• Credibility
  • authors are women of color
  • hold positions of importance at respective institutions that are producing their works