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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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? [/quote]

Is it not beneficial to women for their sons to see them in professional action?[/quote]

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[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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