Her name is as big as the title, shes just as important, shes a public figure.
Links to over sites, features of online articles
n opinion piece with the sub heading gender, probably more aimed at middle class women, as sandi is fanour for being on middle class shows such as the great briting bake off, her fans might be reading.
The gender pay gap isn't the half of it: our economy runs on women's unpaid work
The title is a compound sentence, two mains causes with a colon. Colloquial use of the phrase ‘isnt the half of it’. Adds to an informal register. Humour. Shes an enntertainer, First clause demonstrates this. Second clause, present simple tense, serious seems more factual.
I call it our ‘grossly undervalued domestic product’: the caring, support and childcare women do without seeing a penny. It’s time we recognised it
First person pronoun ‘i call it’ which distances herself from the audience. Establishes it as an opinion pievce. Field specific lexis “grossly undervalued fomestic product” her own phrase. Shes representing the unpayed childcare done by women in a negative light.
Mention graphological features such as the photo graph, clearlry talking about britain as the currency of the money is sterling
Irecently delivered the annual Adam Smith lecture in Kirkcaldy, Fife. It was the first time a woman had been trusted to give this economics lecture all by herself. As a marvellous bagpiper led the way, it struck me that this might be my glass cliff moment. Because, let’s face it, I’m not an obvious choice for such a task. But with men now making up two-thirds of economics students, all but one of the Nobel prizewinners for economics having been a man and every single British chancellor of the exchequer somehow having been required to be a boy, then finding a woman might have been tricky.
Use of the first person “I” in large writing myane to show how her opinion is important. Mentions her “Adam Smith lecture” giving herself instrumental power, link to the lecture if you dont know what it is. The verb “trusted” is to show how women arent trusted and maybe is looking back to previous experiences. “All by herself” patronising tone, similar to when a child manages to do somthimg by itself. “Glass cliff moment” extended metaphor. Mix of opinion and fact, no female chamcellor of the exchequer is a fact. Uses features of spoken language “lets face it”. Mixes a formal and informal register as well as high frequency and low frequency lexis and fact and opinion without it being too obvious.
By happy coincidence, I chose as the subject of my lecture women’s exclusion from the formal economy. Or as I like to call it, our grossly undervalued domestic product (GUDP). Never, as it happens, has this been more relevant than now, as the full horror of the gender pay gap is revealed. I have so enjoyed watching the debate unfold. Highlights include accusing women of conflating pay discrimination with the gender pay gap – silly women! – though nobody benefits more from this apparent “confusion” than the companies evading legal action.
Uses the acronym “GUDP” as she already used this phrase. Pre modified Noun “horror” gives a clear representation that its serious and her opinion of it is highly negative. Adobts the voice of the patreorical society, exclamative syntax “silly women! For humour and irony. The phrase “apparent “confusion””, meaning its not confusing atall all and she believes the answer is obvious.
Better still are those bemoaning the lack of explanatory data, while dogmatically concluding that the gender pay gap has nothing to do with discrimination in hiring or promotion decisions. And my absolute favourite – let’s not forget the pro-choicers. These are the three women on this planet whose privilege and adoration of unfettered capitalism leads them to infer that women simply choose to work for less, and guarantees them a slot on every talkshow “in the interest of balance”.
Uses the adverb “dogmatically” to state how the counter arguments ideologically driven. present simple “women simply choose to work for less” is an opinion disguised as a fact. No opinion about gender inequality, she states how its true.
But the pay gap isn’t the choice of women. It is both a cause and consequence of gender inequality. In many respects it is more important than pay discrimination because it shines a light on the deep structural inequalities in every part of our society and economy.
Metaphor “shines a light” to show how it needs to be heard and everyone needs to be aware.
On my way to the lecture, I stopped in at the Cottage Family Centre in Kirkcaldy. This wonderful community service was set up by a group of local parents in 1987 and provides a lifeline to poor families in the area. In 2016 its Christmas appeal provided food and presents to 300 children. By last year as many as 800 children and families needed its help. When they recently learned that they had lost one of their funding streams, the extraordinary women who work there offered to take a pay cut so that their community wouldn’t suffer.
Uses the adjective “wonderful” to describe the community service. Sandi states how the women are extradinary as they take a pay cut to help better people, represents these women as heros.
The Cottage is a stark reminder that poverty is gendered. Most of the people it serves are women and children who have been first in the line of fire for austerity. Because, as Sophie Walker, leader of the Women’s Equality party, has repeatedly pointed out, “while tax cuts are benefiting men, benefit cuts are harming women”. Research carried out by the House of Commons library in 2017 revealed that it is women who have borne 86% of the burden of austerity since 2010. The brilliant staff who work at the Cottage are overwhelmingly female, no doubt encouraged by an education system that says caring jobs are for women, and the scarcity of flexible working in other sectors.
Instrumental power, shes sophie is the leader of the womens equality party. Adverb “repeatedly” , informal verb phrase “pointed out” shows how no one listens and they have to keep saying it. House of commons library 2017, very relevent and powerful. Semantic field of instrumental power. Opinion pieces uses evidence to add authoroity with stats.
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