[AG-TECH] "Take your Daughter to Work" April 25

[Emilee J Patrick]

RE: [AG-TECH] "Tale your Daughter to Work" April 25Ms magazine originally invented "Take Our Daughters To Work Day" 10 years ago to promote the advancement of women in the workplace

http://www.takeourdaughterstowork.org/

the original intent was not so much to combat discrimination against women in the workplace, directly, but to expose girls to future career possibilites that they might otherwise be discouraged from pursuing in school

it's interesting that the issue of including boys in the event would be raised. i have no opinion either way -- i don't even have kids (i would love a "take your beagle to work day" :) -- just wanted to throw in my 2 cents

-em

Emilee J Patrick
Senior Human Factors Scientist
Applications Research Lab, Motorola Labs
1301 E. Algonquin Rd. IL02/2230
Schaumburg IL  60196

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nolan, Kevin [NCSUS] 
  To: 'Barbara A. Kucera' ; Peterson, Michael R 
  Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 6:56 AM
  Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] "Tale your Daughter to Work" April 25


  J&J will be doing a "Take your Children to Work" day. 

  -----Original Message----- 
  From: Barbara A. Kucera [mailto:bkucera at ncsa.uiuc.edu] 
  Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:37 AM 
  To: Peterson, Michael R 
  Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
  Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] "Tale your Daughter to Work" April 25 

  That sounds great, Mike.  Thanks for taking the lead and getting us 
  organized.  I'll work with the folks here at NCSA to get us under control 
  and we'll get back to you. 

  Oh . . . there is one more thing.  Boys.  Among groups that I'm familiar 
  with, there has been considerable discussion about whether it should be 
  "Take your Children to Work" day.  If we hope for our children not to 
  discriminate between the sexes, we should probably not lead by bad 
  example.  What's the policy on this event? 

  Regards, 

  Barbara 

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