Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day, as told by FIU’s youngest

Seven children from the Division of External Relations learned more about what their parents do for a living when they participated in the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day Thursday, May 3. Karina Bravo, Raymond Castro, Janet D’Alessandro, Jenevieve Jimenez, Sebastian Negret, Emma Nissim and Marco Vargas hit Modesto A. Maidique Campus, notepads in hand, excited about the prospect of being communicators for the day. One of the members of the Junior FIU News Team, Emma Nissim, wrote the piece below:

One of the great experiences in growing up is going to your parent’s office for Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day. The well-known tradition actually started off as Take Your DAUGHTER to Work Day, and was founded in 1993 by Gloria Steinem and the Ms. Foundation for Women. But then 10 years later it expanded into Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day, daughter or son. The decision to have the custom become gender neutral was not made at first. In the beginning, the Ms. Foundation for Women suggested having Take Your Son to Work day. The final decision to include all children was made in 2003.

Almost 10 years later, Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day has been celebrated by many workplaces and thousands of children. On Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day in 2012, children in External Relations worked on videos, wrote stories (like this one) and met the president of the university!

— by Emma Nissim, Gulliver Academy, 7th grade