Prepare a policy analysis. Your analysis will examine the historical roots of the contemporary issue facing women in the 21st century that you researched assignment 3: Policy Issues Facing Women, and will recommend a specific action that you think ought to be taken on that concern. Please make sure that the analysis includes the following:
An overview of the issue and its relevance to American society.
A historic context that examines how the issue has been addressed by political leaders since the 1970s.
A set of options that the current presidential administration might take to address the issue.
A reflection on what past and present policies regarding the issue have accomplished and of where they have fallen short.
A recommended action for the current presidential administration to take.
Please read the article How to do a Policy Analysis for guidance in preparing your essay.
Within your essay body, you can use a short citation for any references to our textbook, quotes or paraphrases, or to other published sources you consult. Short citation = including the authors’ last name or names if multiple authors, a page number reference, and including these in parentheses.
Example of how to cite a quote from a published source within your essay:
“Consistent with long-running developments, women currently [2010s] constitute nearly half of paid labor and working mothers are now the norm” (Dubois and Dumenil, 690).
At the end of your essay you must include a list of your references [a bibliography] of all sources used in the essay.
Bibliographic entry for a book using the Chicago Style:
Dubois, Ellen Carol and Lynn Dumenil. Through Women’s Eyes: An American History With Documents. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2016.
Bibliographic Entry for a Scholarly Journal article: Hosken, Fran P. “Toward a Definition of Women’s Human Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly 3, no. 2 (May 1981): 1-10. Bibliographic Entry for a article in a newspaper: Gedda, George. “Albright Champions Women’s Rights, Issue Emerges as a Priority in US Foreign Policy.” Los Angeles Times, 27 April 1997, A1. Bibliographic Entry for article in a popular magazine: Baker, Carrie. “Civil Rights Wronged.” Ms. Magazine, September 26, 2017, 45.
Bibliographic entry for a website with an unknown author:
Clio Visualizing History. “Workplace and Family: Women’s Work.” Click! The Ongoing Feminist Revolution. Accessed November 10, 2017. https://www.cliohistory.org/click/workplace-family/work/ .