Take Daughters and Sons to Work Day

April 24th is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. It was originally founded in 1992 by feminists as Take Our Daughters to Work Day because, they claimed, girls were disadvantaged.

Economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth argues that both the original premise (boys were the disadvantaged ones even then, certainly in educational achievement) and encouraging 25 million children to miss school are wrong-headed.

She cites several studies that show young people are not learning the kinds of skills necessary to fill many of the high-paying jobs that go begging today.Concludes the author,

 In order to learn about work, young people should have more vocational opportunities within a school curriculum, as many schools are starting to do now.

Someone should start the national Bring Work to Our Children Day.