The essay I chose to do is a persuasive essay written by Gloria Steinem. After endless years of fighting for equal rights women are still treated with less rights and freedom as the men at work places. Time sense is always directed by power either financial power or social power. Planning ahead depended on what class, sex and caste you belonged to. Women had to be much more flexible in their career and their planning for future since they are dominated by men, even women who had the same qualifications as their husbands, and had a job were to adjust their life according to their spouse and children. Women living in the society were powerless so they could only plan for few days. They live in instability and uncertainty. The rich and the middle class planed for the future generations while the poor planed for a week or a few days. Women who were still hanging onto their past couldn't think or plan for their future. The black population who were socially and culturally powerless also could not plan for the future. A black, successful journalist and critic also could not plan beyond one assignment at a time knowing it had to be approved by a white editor. The purpose of this essay is to make us realize how the world really works It concentrates on how future planning ability revolves around your cultural status, race, gender, and financial status. The audience this essay is directed to is well educated females in the workforce and working male so they can be acknowledged about this issue which has been around since decades. As I was reading the short story I found plenty of literary devices, like "I could adapt to the career and priorities of an eventual husband and children, even though I was leading a rewarding life without either." Another device that I found was analogy: "Obviously, many of us need to extend our time-sense to have the courage to plan for the future, even while most of us are struggling to keep our heads above the