Journal Entry # 5

• This essay was written in 1971. What types of duties does Syfers describe as being performed by wives? To what degree do you believe these are still done primarily by women? Have these or other things about the husband/wife relationship changed in the last 37 years?
The duties that Syfers describes in this essay are basically everything that needs to be done within a household: going to work, taking care of the children, taking care of the house, running errands. I do think there are still many, many, many women in the world who are just as Syfers described but very few of them reside in the U.S. Many of the things that Syfers described have changed drastically within the last 37 years.

• How would you describe Syfers’ writing style? Does she do things you would typically avoid in your own writing?
Syfers' writing style is very basic. I would do a lot of things differently in my own writing. Syfers has a lot of run on and incomplete sentences, she repeats things many times in different paragraphs which are not for the most part very organized.

• Syfers was reacting to a social structure that she felt at the time was unfair. What types of injustice or unfairness do you see in the world nowadays that you think should be addressed? Syfers implies that men benefit from the servile position of women in the family. Who benefits from the injustices you see active in the world today?
I think that there is a lot of unfairness to women in the workforce. Today women are still not being paid as much as men in some work areas.
I also think that wet foot dry foot policy with the Cubans is unfair.
The many genocides that are going on in Africa and nothing is being done about it.