Our Daughters for Life afternoons. We've visited the campus Women's Archives to find out how women have affected history and encouraged girls to value their own history. She explained that African American women comprise only 1.3 percent of senior management in U.S. corporations. That figure won't rise until more African American women and girls are exposed to a wide variety of careers and options they are simply unaware of at present. Entire industries and career options are off their radar screen.
Exposure is the key to a satisfying career choice.
For instance, Bates Parker pointed out that the number of men graduating in computer sciences is rising while the number of women earning computer science degrees is falling. One angle of the program explores so-called caring professions. We want to encourage children to look around their lives and see the possibilities . We also want girls and boys to look at their professions in terms of making a living and making a life. That's why she formerly ran a special program to expose young children to the college campus via storytelling, coloring books and visits.