The University will join with other workplaces across the nation in its first celebration of the annual "Take Our Daughters To Work Day" on Thursday, April 24.
Employees are invited to bring their daughters, granddaughters, nieces or any other young girls between the ages of 8 and 14 to work on that day with the approval of their supervisors. And in fairness to the other sex, boys are also invited to accompany a parent, relative or friend to work.
The Yale Women's Center is sponsoring the campus celebration of Take Our Daughters To Work Day.
Now a national event, Take Our Daughters To Work Day was started by the Ms. Foundation in 1993 as a public education program. It is designed to expose young girls to the range of life options open to them, give them an opportunity to see work as an integral part of women's lives and help them make connections between education and their future development. As the event is now in its fifth year, the theme of this year's day is "Five Years of Work Towards a Lifetime of Confidence."
Yale sophomore Christine Kim stirred Yale participation in the national celebration after attending the Women's Expo last year in Washington, D.C. Her goal is to have Yale's celebration become an opportunity for staff members to serve as mentors for the day for their own and other children. "Hopefully, the program that starts this year will be able to grow so that we can match up willing Yale employees with young girls from the New Haven area," Ms. Kim says.
In keeping with the intent of the program, children who come to campus will watch relatives or friends as they go about their normal routines. All children must be supervised.