Tomorrow is the 10th Annual "Take Our Daughters To Work Day." Think about that. It seems like it's been around so much longer than that. But then it's still only recently that the concept of women working as doctors, lawyers, judges, congresspeople wasn't completely insane to consider.
And it’s amazing how, almost from its inception, the opponents were all over it, complaining that it sent a bad message about female victimhood...The same people who weren’t the least bit bothered when boys got the only decent school sports programs—or, for that matter, the entire Supreme Court—were flipping out about a bunch of 13-year-old girls eating in the corporate cafeteria for one afternoon....Boys have issues and problems, too, but they’re not the same as the ones girls have. We just don’t start from the same place; otherwise it wouldn’t be called “helping” when a man performs tasks in his own home, or “baby-sitting” when he looks after his own children....Women still agonize over balancing work and family; lots of guys still assume they’ll balance work and family by getting married....That’s not victimhood, it’s history.
So here's to the 10th Anniversary and to more girls, including my 8-year-old niece Mariah, considering a full range of options for their lives and careers!