Thursday is "Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day"
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When universities like mine have twenty "National Women's Week"-esque events a year, but none for men (who represent 70% of the students)
Ahhh...... Men's Week.
Man that would be sweet. Beer in the office. Women in bikinis. Not having to shave. Wear robes to work.
Sweet I tell you.........sweet.......
Man that would be sweet. Beer in the office. Women in bikinis. Not having to shave. Wear robes to work.
Sweet I tell you.........sweet.......
You want it to be "Take your sons to work day"??
Because you want your daughter to know her place is in the kitchen right?
Why can't they just freaking say "kids"??
they changed it to both genders a few years back , or at least where i work they did
this will be the 3rd year my daughter has come to work with me
she doesn't really get much out of it, it is sorta lame/excuse to get out of school, but she thinks it is neato
this will be the 3rd year my daughter has come to work with me
she doesn't really get much out of it, it is sorta lame/excuse to get out of school, but she thinks it is neato
CPA
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I don't know about the rest of you, but when I was in elementary and junior high (mid-eighties), it was "Career Day", where all boys and girls went to their parent's workplace. Then in the mid-nineties it changed just to "Take your daughter's to work day". Now it looks like the pendulum has swung back to include the boys. This isn't a politically correct change, it's more of a getting back to what it was originally change.
You seem to think that by being politically correct, they added girls too.
But you're thinking of it the wrong way around. It used to just be "take your daughter to work day"., but then they added "and sons" in there. By being politically correct they added the boys.
kranky
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It did start out as "Take your daughters to work day". The idea was to make sure girls saw a broad spectrum of career opportunities as being available to them to pursue, and not restrict their thinking to the "traditional" women's careers. Ms. magazine started the idea.
But since that was too un-PC, they had to broaden it to include the boys, which really undermined the original intent.
Where I work, that will mean a day where a bunch of bored, hyperactive kids will be herded from area to area, in a vain attempt to make a bunch of cubicles and meeting rooms appear interesting.
But since that was too un-PC, they had to broaden it to include the boys, which really undermined the original intent.
Where I work, that will mean a day where a bunch of bored, hyperactive kids will be herded from area to area, in a vain attempt to make a bunch of cubicles and meeting rooms appear interesting.
If all-male events are being disbanded and forced to let women participate, the same must happen with all-female events.
HomeBrewerDude
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Why would people take thier kids to work?
"here honey, sit and watch me type code for eight hours..."
"here honey, sit and watch me type code for eight hours..."
In collaboration with the schools in our area, my company (a major employer in our community) is holding this during summer vacation this year.
We organize kid-friendly activities that relate to the work we do, and restrict the age range from 9-14 so we can plan activities that are age appropriate. We get a lot of positive press and the kids enjoy it tremendously. Nobody just sits and watches Mom & Dad all day long. This is good because my kids wouldn't be allowed in my lab- restricted to adults with safety training (i.e. small amounts of radiolabel, small amounts of hazardous chemicals, perfectly safe IF you know what you're doing). Instead, they can do such things as go to a conference room for an hour to learn about statistics from a statistician - calculating what percentage of their bag of M&Ms are brown, the average, median and mean number of brown M&Ms for everyone in the room, then go to the auditorium for a chemistry magic show, then go to the product testing area to "test" different types of candy, etc.
This is for both boys and girls.
We organize kid-friendly activities that relate to the work we do, and restrict the age range from 9-14 so we can plan activities that are age appropriate. We get a lot of positive press and the kids enjoy it tremendously. Nobody just sits and watches Mom & Dad all day long. This is good because my kids wouldn't be allowed in my lab- restricted to adults with safety training (i.e. small amounts of radiolabel, small amounts of hazardous chemicals, perfectly safe IF you know what you're doing). Instead, they can do such things as go to a conference room for an hour to learn about statistics from a statistician - calculating what percentage of their bag of M&Ms are brown, the average, median and mean number of brown M&Ms for everyone in the room, then go to the auditorium for a chemistry magic show, then go to the product testing area to "test" different types of candy, etc.
This is for both boys and girls.
I don't have kids, but I would like to take some students that I work with. But security clearance would be kinda hard and its a long ride from Las Vega into the desert. My boss would probably kill me if I tried to sneak some kids in there. Its pretty secretive around there. Wait shoot.....nevermind.....
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