Bring Your Daughter to Work Day? Bring it On!

So, it's upon us once again. "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day" or as I like to call it, "Scared Straight" (“see, you'd better get your marks up, young lady, or this'll happen to you! Is that what you want? Is it?”). This is a day when we are supposed to show our female offspring the full width and breath of any true career opportunities and help them prepare for their futures by allowing them to cut school. Nothing like a little society-approved class ditching to improve morale, eh?

Obviously, I'm not a big fan of Bring Your Daughter to Work day. I'm sure if I was Marlo Thomas or Susan Sarandon, I'd bring my kid to work in a minute. Some slick, politically-correct work place with lots of day care and some managed company-sponsored program so that my kid wasn't actually with me for the day. And hey, if I was a kid and I got to produce a news show or publish a magazine for the day, I'll love to go to. But out here in reality-land, things aren't so peachy keen.

For instance, why isn’t BYDtWD scheduled during spring break? Wouldn’t it be better if your daughter missed a day of school when there isn't any? Might it be because you really can't demonstrate a girl's full potential at Disney World or the Cayman Islands? Sure, woman's rights are important, but why should we have to reschedule a vacation around it? Or is it because they don't want to get their daughters mixed up with those kids that many working mothers are already bringing to the office because they can't get babysitters for them during school holidays? So, actually there are already lots of daughters at work, but it just isn't the same without that celebrity endorsement, is it?