Summary Of Jessica Grose's Article 'Cleaning: The Final Frontier'

Jessica Grose’s article “Cleaning: The Final Frontier” was published by the New Republic in 2013. Grose acknowledges that when it comes to cleaning in a household, the distribution of cleaning is unfair between both gender roles. In the beginning she explains how household chores should be equal between the wife and the husband. She goes into talking about how women work more than their male partners. Grose argues that men do not do enough cleaning and that they are the problem, but she contradicts herself and later realizes that men are not the problem, women are. She starts her article with effective appeals, strong credibility and facts about men not doing their share but later her argument becomes ineffective and loses her argument at the end. Grose uses a Logos appeal towards the beginning when she persuades her readers with her reasoning being that men do not put enough effort in around the

She is so confident and has many credible facts to support her argument. Then as her article is coming to a close she contradicts herself. She slowly loses her argument when she explains that men do want to help around the house but when they do they don’t get any of the credit for it. She says, “A lot of women shoo their husbands away from cleaning because they know the men will do a sub-par job of scrubbing the sink.” She goes from arguing that Men do not help; to the idea that men try to help but women just do not allow them to because women believe they cannot do the job up to the standards they want. Then from this she comes up with two solutions to deal with men not helping around the house. She decides to 1. Divide the chores based on the economic theory of comparative advantage or 2. Women need to lower their filth threshold. Grose has a good idea to solve the inequalities between men and women in a house but is unable to show this in her own