Who killed Take your Daughter to Work Day?

[Anonymous]

My company back in 1992 did Take your Daughter to Work Day when it first started.

We targeted 13-16 year girls in year one. They all dressed in business clothes. Was extremely professional, of the girls who attended many went on to be interns our company in college and some joined us after college graduation. This was New York Stock Exchange.

By 2003 became take your kids to work day and they added sons. Which made no sense in places like Wall Street which was trying to attract women.

Around 2003- 2019 they kept lowering the ages to attend to like 5-10 and became a day of pizza parties, games and coloring books. A nonsense day. No longer any value to company or participants.

Covid came in 2020 and seems most companies never restarted it.

How did in my case 1993 where we had HS aged women on trading floor at NYSE in trading vests learning how to trade stocks, attended opening and closing bell, attend lunch in executive cafeteria, meet with CEO, tour market operations and have formal meetings to learn about various departments and learn about how a stock exchange works by 2006 became little kids eating pizza and candy and by 2020 be done.

Was a great idea. Who killed it? Can we bring it back to how it was intended?

[Anonymous]

I mean it’s blatantly sexist so there is that.

[Anonymous]

It’s such a nepo baby thing. Yeah, you might have been on Wall Street but most of us normies went to work with our dads on their construction sites, etc. and I am sure it was killed because of the legal risk.

[Anonymous]

My husband's work had Take Your Kid to work day just last year. They did a bunch of fun activities for the kids.
He works in a lab though so it's a pretty fun place and they could do all sorts of science demos. Unfortunately due to the everything they canceled it this year.

I mean also, I mostly telework so take your kid to work day would be pretty dull.

[Anonymous]

I went with my dad in the 90s when I was under 10. I remember there being boys there too. This was a fed agency.

[Anonymous]

We had it at a federal agency last year (boys and girls) and it was very popular. It actually demonstrated careers that kids might be interested in. Obviously this year no one is organizing it.

[Anonymous]

The pentagon had one last year and it was great. Kids of all ages were invited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pentagon had one last year and it was great. Kids of all ages were invited.

+1. My kids LOVE the Pentagon one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went with my dad in the 90s when I was under 10. I remember there being boys there too. This was a fed agency.

Yeah I'm a guy who went with my dad in the mid 90s. He worked at IBM.

My daughter asked about it, but I work in a small office that doesn't do anything, so it would just be a day off school to sit and watch me type which seems silly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s such a nepo baby thing. Yeah, you might have been on Wall Street but most of us normies went to work with our dads on their construction sites, etc. and I am sure it was killed because of the legal risk.

I only went to my mom's work one year. The following years, I went to work with various family friends. When I was an intern, we hosted local winners of the DC science fair and their siblings. Now as an adult, my kids are too little to get much out of the programming. Instead, I have taken my cousins and their neighbor who are 20+ years younger than me. This doesn't have to be nepo baby thing.

Btw, I would have LOVED to go to a construction site as a kid. But yeah I get how dangerous that could have been.

[Anonymous]

It's sexist and exclusionary.

More girls already go to college now. If women aren't making it in the world now, they have only themselves to blame.

It's either take your kids to work day or nothing. And let's be honest, take your kids to work day is nothing more than a zero productivity day of free babysitting on the company's dime and parents all leave work early.

Waste of time and money.

[Anonymous]

There is this ridiculous idea that nothing can be single gender anymore. Sort of like there is no such thing now as Boy Scouts.

Because, you know, we’re all exactly the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean it’s blatantly sexist so there is that.

And especially now with one of the political parties bleeding young men to the other party, this probably isn’t the way to go.

[Anonymous]

It's been "take your kid to work" day for decades.

Did you just wake up from a coma, OP??

[Anonymous]

Founded in New York City in 1992 by Gloria Steinem as a project of the Ms. Foundation, "Take Our Daughters to Work Day" was created to help show girls that being smart was something to be proud of, not something to hide, and that their ideas could be heard and had value.

I was hardly an executive back then when Goldman, NY Stock Exchange, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan did Take your Daughter to work day originally.

Back in 1993 believe it or not. Wall Street was full of mainly low paid people. Also things were not outsourced like today. My Wall Street firm employed over 1,000 security guards, we had cafeteria workers, tons of Facilities people and Operations and Back Office activities employed tons of people.

All those back office people Daughters got to meet the executives of these firms and learn about Wall Street in High School at around 9th to 11th grade when deciding what major or career I want one day. Many a life was changed because of that day.

It became take your children to work day with little boys and girls running around office learning nothing and then died.