Archive for April, 2008

“That ain’t workin’”

April 28, 2008

Thursday was Take our Daughters and Sons to Work day.

Funny how it’s turned from a feminist push to encourage girls to grow up and get jobs, to a sort of field trip-cum-career day for grade school kids. At least at my office. Most striking to me was that the adults that brought the kids didn’t hang around for any of the activities (and with the aging workforce in my field — government services — most of the kids were grandkids and grandnieces; there was only one “daughter”). 

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