Renee
Governor
Today was bring your child to work day, and I'm glad to say it is really an unnecessary day off from school.
This day began about 25 years ago with "bring your daughters to work" and the goal was to show girls that they too can have jobs usually like their fathers. ....in male dominated professions, They would see men as dentist, as mechanics as lawyers, as accountants as architects , as canines makers, as senators etc.
The good news is we need it no more .....girls know that all these professions are opened to them, young females today are growing up without the limitations of the girls who first celebrated this day. What was once a dream then is a reality now. What I never understood is why they decided to make it bring your children to work day because it defeated the purpose. Boys did not need to be told that all those professions were open to them . If they wanted to make the day valid, they would have the boys stay at home and see what a homemaker does, they would take their sons to hospitals where the mothers are nurses or any dominated female profession which they are usually discouraged to enter. I Remember my daughter going to work with my husband on the trading floor and she came home and said "mommy there were hardly any ladies down there"
We've come a long way baby....
This day began about 25 years ago with "bring your daughters to work" and the goal was to show girls that they too can have jobs usually like their fathers. ....in male dominated professions, They would see men as dentist, as mechanics as lawyers, as accountants as architects , as canines makers, as senators etc.
The good news is we need it no more .....girls know that all these professions are opened to them, young females today are growing up without the limitations of the girls who first celebrated this day. What was once a dream then is a reality now. What I never understood is why they decided to make it bring your children to work day because it defeated the purpose. Boys did not need to be told that all those professions were open to them . If they wanted to make the day valid, they would have the boys stay at home and see what a homemaker does, they would take their sons to hospitals where the mothers are nurses or any dominated female profession which they are usually discouraged to enter. I Remember my daughter going to work with my husband on the trading floor and she came home and said "mommy there were hardly any ladies down there"
We've come a long way baby....
