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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was also WOMEN take our daughters to work.  it was meant to show girls that women can work and what it looks like for a mom to work.  [/quote]

No.  The idea was for men to also take daughters to work.  I used to have the research cites but even through the 80s and 90s women worked in many fewer jobs then men — ie there was more gender concentration into certain jobs like teacher, nurse, secretary.  And if you asked little girls what they wanted to be, they also said “mom” “teacher” “nurse” or maybe secretary.  I distinctly remember being the only girl in my 1977 kindergwrrrn class that didn’t pick one of those careers for our “when I grow up” portrait. And I was shocked when I visited my nieces K class in  2000 and saw the exact same thing.  The idea was to show girls other careers so they could think about some different options.  So if their dad was an engineer, he could take her into work and show her that.  Or if her mom was a legal secretary, she could take her and then she might get broader exposure to the world of lawyers.  But everyone forgot the purpose so it kind of became meaningless and more just a way to show “this is where your mom spends all her time when she’s not with you.”[/quote]

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