A Man's Job

Melissa Alford
English Comp. II (2802)
October 6, 2003
Paper #3

A Man’s Job
Men have since time been known as the “breadwinners” of the family household. The woman has always been considered as the “housewife”. Times have changed, and the economic structure of the household has taken on many changes. Women today are taking on more roles and are doing jobs once considered to be “a man’s job”. In the article, “Women don’t belong in the Cockpit”, Ed Anger is an evident feminist, evidenced by his outpours on women pilots. His article is very entertaining, but it is certainly not without errors.
First, it shows all the characteristics of an inductive statement: lack of evidence, insufficiency, unrepresentative, polling. His article lacks evidence when he states, “letting a woman pilot a pl...