Name : Kelvin Ng Man Heng (I06004476) Course Code : ENL 292 (Communication and Study Skills) Lecturer : Phawani A/P A. Vijayaratnam Brain storming | /5 | Outline | /10 | Detail Outline | /15 | Paraphrasing Summary | /10 | Final Copy | /10 | Journal | /20 |
My topic is about women in the corporate world . The reason I had chosen this topic after I read a book title "The truth about woman" by C. Gasquoine Hartley and from my daily life experience seeing women not being treat equally compare to men just because they are known as the "weaker sex" . For example, my neighbor who is a widow looking after four children and earn a living by just selling noodle is capable to provide education (financially) to her children. Why look down on the abilities of woman? Sometimes the perseverance of a woman is better than a man. In my opinion, any men who says this to a feminist would probably be called a "Male Chauvinist Pig", MCP for short. The days when men led and women followed are gone.
" In days of old when knights were bold ", the men were the ones who went about the business of ruling and running the country. The woman remained in the background, cooking, cleaning the house and bringing up the children. Nowadays the situation has changed tremendously. Woman also share the responsibilities of running and ruling the country as much as the men. They are on equal footing with men. They are emancipated. Does their emancipation result in the enslavement of men ?
Look at our present society, we can see that there are no male slave. Granted some men help in domestic chores. Attitudes have changed. Men do not feel that it is degrading nor it is humiliating to be on an equal footstep with the woman.
I firmly believed that women must join the corporate level and treated equally and this is the moment when
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