In response to your post, I also found the "Authenticity" chapter very interesting. While reading, I also highlighted the quote on page 98 about how women lose their qualities to "blend in with the boys". Because women are not seen as leaders, and the fact that word "leader" is gendered masculine (99) women are not receiving the credit they deserve and are criticized for trying to be like men.
I was a little upset with the section about Take Your Daughter to Work Day. When I was a little girl I used to go to work with my dad at the news station and I was always put on the air as a specimen of this special day. Over the years they ended up changing it to Take Your Child to Work Day, and I was really jealous. Why should the boys get to go to work too? Shouldn't this be OUR time to experience what our mothers and fathers do on the job? This should be a day for girls to go out into the work force and see what it is like. I do understand why boys should be allowed too - after all it is a day off from school! But I still think it should have remained Take Your Daughter to Work Day.
In the "Culture" chapter, I absolutely loved the idea of President Barbie and her Barbie White House! What an awesome way to express to young girls that they too can become the President of the United States someday.
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Yeah, I agree that they should have kept it "Take Your Daughter to Work Day," although, I know it wouldn't be fair and someone might not even have any daughters. They should create a "Have Your Son Home for Housework Day," so that boys can see what it's like taking care of the home. Just a thought.
I'm sorry to disagree but I feel that by calling it take your daughter to work day it encourages the idea that this is a special one time thing and I feel that you don't overcome injustice by limiting others opportunities. The only way that women will ever be treated equally to men is if we start demanding everything be equal, including with take your children to work day. That is just my opinion, Lisa :)
I have to disagree because I feel like men have had plenty of opportunities to make things equal between women. I feel like the only way that we may get out point across is to leave men out of somethings. I feel as though women are left out of a lot of things and have been pasted up on many occassions, but to change the name of a day that was and probably still is speacial to women and theirs daugthers to satisfy the male ego is rather ridiculous to me.
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