However, girls enroll more in clerical and data entry computer courses, the contemporary equivalent of typing classes, than in advanced computer classes. Take Our Daughters To Work 2001 will provide girls with several opportunities to explore technology with parents and mentors at home and in the workplace. Girls' exploration continues throughout the day on April 26, as IDEV, the company who developed the Take Our Daughters To Work website, unveils an online curriculum that walks girls through the process of building a web page. A lot of the amazing women we'll be profiling, and even ChickClick staff, have taken non-traditional routes to get where they are. Showing girls a range of career options, Girlstart.org will present professional women in a series of moderated chats.
Girls can ask questions of women veterinarians, web designers, and engineers.
The Day will also include interactive webchats, forums, and webcasts with the NASA Quest Women of NASA program. The online events will be hosted by high school students from the Young Women of NASA Advisory Council. The first Take Our Daughters To Work Day was created in 1993 as a national intervention to help girls stay healthy and strong through adolescence-a crucial time for girls to focus on their futures. Drawing on research showing that adult encouragement can change the course of a girl's life, the program gives girls the opportunity to see the wide range of life and career options open to them.