34. Why 43% of Women With Children Leave Their Jobs, and How to Get Them Back

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/why-43-of-women-with-children-leave-their-jobs-and-how-to-get-them-back/275134/

        In Paulette Light's article, "Why 43% of Women With Children Leave Their Jobs, and How to Get Them Back," she reveals a solution for women who gave up on their career because of their children. Light starts by talking about her own personal experience. She was also a woman with a great career until she had her child. Even though she tried to work and take care of her kid at the same time, it was tiring. She had to quit her job and become a housewife. Light took care of 4 children, while her husband supported her family. After all her kids went to school, she had the opportunity to go back to work. However, she have been 15 years without working and all her experience she gained in the past was no longer useful. Light searched for a profession, and she found out that while she was at home being a housewife, she planned and coordinated many events. This eventually helped her open a business and be involved in other project-based works. Light said, "Consider the management, negotiation, budgeting skills we gained in our years out of the workforce and the skills that many of us never lost." She suggests that these skills will provide a job fo these women. She ends her article by telling these women to change the percentage of 43% to more.
      The author's purpose in writing this article is to help housewives who do not have a career after having children. These housewives already achieved skills during their time working at home. She reaches out to these women by talking about her own experience and how it worked out right for her. Other housewives would feel that this article is credible because the author herself passed through the same difficulties and overcame them. Her diction is very effective, since she is able to create the formal , yet friendly tone to invite her audience. Her audience is mostly women, especially housewives. The author's article is very effective, since she is able to achieve her purpose of helping others.