Who killed Take your Daughter to Work Day?

[Anonymous]

Boy moms can’t have their precious left behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Sexism is very much alive and well in the workplace.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went with my father as a teenager and it was pretty interesting. I think bringing the ages down is what killed it. No kid under 13 is getting anything out of seeing a workplace. It just becomes snacks and coloring day. It really ought to be about exposing teens to an adult workplace.

This. A former coworker used to bring his elementary-aged daughter to work every year. She was the only child in the office, and he would pawn her off on female coworkers (“do you have any work she can do?”), take her to a fancy lunch, and then go home early.

His wife was a SAHM and he would make comments about needing to expose the daughter to professional women because she didn’t get that from her mom. It was pretty gross.[/quote]

I don't see anything 'gross' about it. He probably didn't trust any of the men! But I actually think it is nice

The derogatory comments about his wife were gross.

But why should his female colleagues have to babysit/“manage” an unqualified intern they didn’t ask for? Why couldn’t he assign some of his own tasks to his daughter? Why did he assume only his female colleagues’ job responsibilities could be adapted to something an 8 year old could handle?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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?

Is it not beneficial to women for their sons to see them in professional action?

When girls see other women in the office/work environment they believe they can do it too. There is nothing stopping anyone taking their son to wok but, you missed the point by your comment

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went with my father as a teenager and it was pretty interesting. I think bringing the ages down is what killed it. No kid under 13 is getting anything out of seeing a workplace. It just becomes snacks and coloring day. It really ought to be about exposing teens to an adult workplace.

This. A former coworker used to bring his elementary-aged daughter to work every year. She was the only child in the office, and he would pawn her off on female coworkers (“do you have any work she can do?”), take her to a fancy lunch, and then go home early.

His wife was a SAHM and he would make comments about needing to expose the daughter to professional women because she didn’t get that from her mom. It was pretty gross.[/quote]

I don't see anything 'gross' about it. He probably didn't trust any of the men! But I actually think it is nice

The derogatory comments about his wife were gross.

But why should his female colleagues have to babysit/“manage” an unqualified intern they didn’t ask for? Why couldn’t he assign some of his own tasks to his daughter? Why did he assume only his female colleagues’ job responsibilities could be adapted to something an 8 year old could handle?

If his wife was a sahm than he is right. The daughter isn't getting exposed to the work environment. Second, who said he didn't assign any work to his daughter? But coming from strangers the daughter would appreciate and work harder for them.

If his female associates didn't want to do it, fine but, honestly would you trust a guy around your 8 year old? Is it really that a burden to be a mentor to a young girl?

[Anonymous]

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

It isn't sexist. It is aimed at increasing the underepresentation of women in the workforce. It is intended to counter workplace sexism.

Agree that it lost its way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boy moms can’t have their precious left behind.

They probably cry about Girls on the Run too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Sexism is very much alive and well in the workplace.

Dp Are you ignoring the fact that many people get where they are because of who they know, not what they know? Do you really believe in the ' pull yourself up by your bootstraps?' I don't. There are so many examples of good smart people who don't get ahead because their family isn't wealthy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Boy moms can’t have their precious left behind.

They probably cry about Girls on the Run too.

They do! They have posted how unfair it is to boys!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

It isn't sexist. It is aimed at increasing the underepresentation of women in the workforce. It is intended to counter workplace sexism.

Agree that it lost its way.

There's no underrepresentation anymore at work. It is the year 2025. If anything, women are overrepresented now. Take your kids to work day is free baby sitting and a day for parents. Waste of time.

[Anonymous]

What’s the point of this post?

It’s been Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work twice as long as it was Take Your Daughters to Work.

Get a time machine and complain in the early 2000’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boy moms can’t have their precious left behind.

They probably cry about Girls on the Run too.

They do! They have posted how unfair it is to boys!

Our school has Girls on the Run and Let me Run (for boys).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boy moms can’t have their precious left behind.

They probably cry about Girls on the Run too.

They do! They have posted how unfair it is to boys!

This isn't a reasonable comparison. Girls on the Run has chosen to be only for girls. I'm fine with that. The various Take your Son or Daughter to Work Day events (and the national organization) have chosen not to be for girls only. That's also fine. Each organization can decide if its goals require it to be sex segregated or not. For Take Your Kid to Work Day, they decided that it didn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the point of this post?

It’s been Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work twice as long as it was Take Your Daughters to Work.

Get a time machine and complain in the early 2000’s.

Boomer Karen's gonna Boomer Karen

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah pretty sure it was "take your kid to work" day back when I was a kid in the 1990s. In the past decade at my workplace it's always been "take your kid to work".

It was Take your Daughter to Work Day from 1992 to 2002. It became Take our Children to Work day officially in 2003. However, a lot of companies started letting boys come in the 1990s.

We had it Daughters only the first few years at Stock Exchange.

I find it a great loss. My daughter went in 2010 at age of 8 and by then it was a bunch of screaming 7-10 year olds in room with boys not particularly suited to sit still in a chair all day and girls of that age not much better. She turned down going the next year as it was for babies.

As opposed to 1995 when we literally had a professional event with the women (not little girls) in business outfits. The teenagers attending a professional run event. Kick off meeting CEO, formal Breakfast, formal Agenda for day, meeting all department heads, tours. And a full day. And parents not even there except lunch. They took the Daughters at start of day. They met the CEO of Stock Exchange that day, toured the trading floor, went to command center, toured Data Centers. Each area HR, Audit, Market Operations, IT, Finance all did sessions on what it is like working in their area and what a career in their area was like. At lunch break you could take your Daughters out to Lunch and then expense it and walk them around. A lot took Daughter to Harry's for lunch where the power brokers eat lunch. Even more fun at 8am program started and all the daughters got to put on trading jackets and do mock trading on floor of NYSE and get their picture on podium pretending to ring opening bell.

Last time any company I worked at did it was 2015. Been ten years since I have even seen it done. The watering down to allow boys to attend and make the ages younger ruined it.

Who has time to plan all that on top of their actual job? The reality is that most places don't do it because no one wants to plan a full day or meaningful activities for teens that may or may not be interested in doing them.