The authors of this article, Mary Jo Murphy and Sona Patel, claim that women have existed for centuries with less opportunity than men. As explicitly stated, “...there was a distinct possibility that this 227-year-old gender barrier would be hurdled...”(paragraph 1). This implies that a gender block is of presence, but not for much longer. In persuasion of this claim, the authors use the rhetorical device of pathos. Pathos are an appeal to the emotions of the audience, and extract the feelings already within them. An example of this from the text is, “The man who ran the center was usually very helpful to me...He looked at me and said, I don’t know, that program has a really high learning curve; it’s really hard.”(7th story). This passage