Who killed Take your Daughter to Work Day?

[Anonymous]

Men ruin everything.

Every. Thing.

[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.

Yet Nursing, Teaching, Social Work programs are mainly women and Accounting, Engineering and CS are mainly men in 2025. Have things changed much?

Accounting is actually majority female.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Men ruin everything.

Every. Thing.

Says the Karen who complain incessantly about kids playing in the street, the park being built behind their house, or the customer service at the fast food restaurant that ends up disrupting the entire flow of orders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Perfect example of sexism being alive and well.

[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.

You're sure about everything you pull out of your rear?

[Anonymous]

It does because, for screamingly obvious reasons, it only works if almost no one actually does it.

Anyway culture is a lot looser now and kids are more welcome at more places more of the time

[Anonymous]

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.

+1 I went with my mom when I was in high school and it was interesting to see what she did at work all day. Opening it up to younger kids turned it into a family fun fair and defeated the purpose.

[Anonymous]

Idk why you think it should only be for high school aged girls. I think 3rd grade+ is good. I’m female and like to bring my son as well. We are an engineering company and it’s difficult to explain what we do to kids.

In my opinion high school is too old. They’re busy with their AP classes this time of year and can’t take random days off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Perfect example of sexism being alive and well.

NP, that's not sexism. Everyone knows who Karen is because of the entitled way in which Karen wants to see the manager and stick her nose in where it doesn't belong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

I’m a millennial and ideas like this were prevalent when I was growing up. I was told I could do anything! It wasn’t true. Dh and I both got masters degrees, both made equal amounts, but once I had kids it’s become impossible. A marriage of equals doesn’t seem to work and someone has to take a lower paying flexible job. I took a pay cut and went into the federal government for telework 2x a week and steady 40 hours a week of work. It was manageable until this year when telework disappeared. Women have been sold a crock of shit. Workplaces are just inherently anti family and even the government thinks women should be barefoot and pregnant at home.

My friends and I truly wish we’d gone into family friendly pink jobs like our moms did so that we could balance family life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Perfect example of sexism being alive and well.

NP, that's not sexism. Everyone knows who Karen is because of the entitled way in which Karen wants to see the manager and stick her nose in where it doesn't belong.

But it is ageism. Which is still a form of bigotry. I see/know plenty of people in their 20s, 30s and 40s who are entitled and judgemental.

[Anonymous]

Dropping the collective "our" and making it "your" daughter/kids didn't help. It wasnt really intended to show kids what their parents do all day, but to expose girls to different professions, ideally those with a lack of female representation. People didn't seem to get that and it just became about dragging your own kids into the office, something they may or may not have any interest in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Perfect example of sexism being alive and well.

NP, that's not sexism. Everyone knows who Karen is because of the entitled way in which Karen wants to see the manager and stick her nose in where it doesn't belong.

But it is ageism. Which is still a form of bigotry. I see/know plenty of people in their 20s, 30s and 40s who are entitled and judgemental.

The boomer bit, maybe. Although boomers mucked everything up so they do deserve it.

[Anonymous]

Very exclusionary. How are a gay couple supposed to bring their daughter to work if it is intended to showcase women bringing in their daughters? Or what about a lesbian couple who only has a son? Very very problematic event in 2025....

[Anonymous]

You know who killed it, OP, #boymoms killed it. They were so jealous.