Jenna Price's Argument Essay

“A busy vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence” (Hale). One such woman, author Jenna Price, wrote “Marry down: why more women are doing it,” published in 2017 in the Sydney Morning Herald, and she argues ” it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a husband”. The author raises some interesting points, but her argument has several fundamental problems: Price begins building her argument with personal facts and sources, using rhetorical appeals. In her editorial, Jenna objects to the ideal that a single woman who has money should marry a man. She uses pathos appeal to say women who are successful
These sources include,” American Community Survey,” “a 1990-2010 study from Chang Hwan Kim and Arthur Sakamoto(Price). Showing the trends on who people decide to marry. In the 2010s 35 percent women marry down while 35 percent men marry up. Citing this source shows how Jenna use evidence to back up her argument by providing facts and statistics and an expert opinion to support her argument. That shows over the course of time women have been marrying down while men start to marry up.
In contrast to Chang Hwan Kim and Arthur Sakamoto research Jenna uses Rae Copper a professor at Sydney business school to counterargument the results of their research. By using the pathos appeal women who are single view men as ATMs while married women are consider to be well educated and a good job that helps improve the living stranded for man than women.
Therefore, when single women marry down man can seek the benefits of a well educated women and her labor to providing for the household. Since the women is earning more than man it will also increase the family income if she is married to a less-educated man.it also helps keep the balance of equality in a