Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Daughters day includes breakfast
BY RANDY TUCKER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Local organizers are making sure that some Cincinnati-area children participating Thursday in the national Take Our Daughters to Work Day won't start their day on empty stomachs.
The Great Rivers Girl Scout Council, Women Entrepreneurs Inc. and the Greater Cincinnati Women's Network will kick off the day with a breakfast for about 160 working parents and their children from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at The Phoenix on Race Street.
Several area businesses are sponsoring the breakfast, for which reservations are no longer being taken.
The breakfast is intended to raise awareness about workplace issues that affect women specifically, but men and boys have not been left out, said Lisa Jacobs, a spokeswoman for the Girl Scout council.
“It's just as important for boys to know what women face in the workplace as it is for girls,” Ms. Jacobs said.
Several Tristate entrepreneurs, organizations and corporate employers — including Procter & Gamble, Cinergy, Cincinnati Bell Telephone, and the Deloitte & Touche LLP accounting firm — have created special, daylong programs for their employees' children.
Since the Ms. Foundation for Women created Take Our Daughters to Work Day in 1992, it has been criticized by some for promoting gender bias because it's tailored for girls.
As a result, some Tristate businesses will open their doors Thursday to boys, girls, grandchildren, neighbors and mentees; others are still open to girls only.
Deloitte & Touche decided to keep the event girls-only to focus on introducing young females to the male-dominated world of accounting.
“We think that the day should continue to be set aside solely for girls to let people know that the program is focused on girls and their self-esteem and their career options,” Holly Simkonis, a spokeswoman for Deloitte and Touche, said.
By contrast, The Westin Cincinnati has invited its employees to participate in “Take Your Child To Work Day,” open to both sons and daughters of hotel employees.
Supporters say critics of the girls-only programs are missing the point.
“This event was created in response to a genuine need,” she said. “It's about confronting an issue that most girls encounter, while most boys do not.”
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