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Parade magazine, below, talks about a new
program called "Taking
Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" that the
MS. Foundation is proposing for 2003. Long a time
celebrated officially by men's organizations around
the country, the MS Foundation, who has
promoted and gotten millions of dollars of
corporate support for the "Take
Our Daughters to Work Day", annually celebrated
on the fourth Thursday in April, has rushed to put
a new spin on it by including "and Sons" in 2003,
something they had ardently refused to do for many
years. Wonder if the law suits against local school
districts, etc. to include Sons had anything to do
with the people at MS. waking up to smell a new
blend of coffee with equality mixed in.
Women have come a long way in the ten years
since the first Take Our Daughters to Work Day was
announced in Parade magazine. Now, says
Marie Wilson, president of the Ms. Foundation for
Women, the program’s sponsor, “We need to
look at how girls and boys can progress
together.”
To that end, Parade reported in the
Sunday, March 3, 2002 issue, page 14, that the Ms.
Foundation will launch Take Our Daughters and Sons
to Work Day for next year.
A new Roper ASW poll on how attitudes toward
gender and the workplace have changed in the last
decade found that 68% of Take Our Daughters to Work
Day participants believe the program encourages
more opportunities for women at work; 65%, however,
believe that, despite progress, men and women still
are treated differently at work, with women paid
less and given fewer chances to advance. Almost 75%
said that, to achieve equality, society also needs
to be more accepting of men in jobs traditionally
viewed as women’s work, such as nursing.
Source: local.parade.com/mediarelations/press_releases/rel-daughter_work.html
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