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Boys
NASA's 7th Annual
Virtual Take Our Daughters To Work Day
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NASA invites you to meet the women who have changed the
way the world works and helped create the American Spirit. In anticipation
of the Centennial of Flight celebrations, this year's events will
focus on the many accomplishments women have made to the NASA legacy
and their contributions to flight, aeronautics and space.
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Thursday, April 25, 2002
Join our live, interactive events all day!
Why do they call this "Take Our Daughters Day"?
What about boys?
NASA's Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day was developed to increase
girls interest in math, science, and technology and encourage them to
pursue careers in these fields. NASA is not alone as a workplace that
employs a far lower number of women than men in engineering, technology,
math related and management areas. Consider these facts:
- Parents purchase technology twice as much for their sons as their
daughters, while at school only a quarter of the students using computers
during free time were girls (Girl Tech, "What's the Difference?,"
2000)
- Girls consistently rate themselves lower than boys on computer ability,
and have less positive attitudes toward computers. (American Institutes
for Research, Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children,
1998)
- There are 2 female CEO's in the Fortune 500 and a total of 6 in the
Fortune 1000. (Catalyst, Facts on Women.)
We would like to emphasize two additional areas on this day - increasing
boys awareness of girls' abilities, and the importance of cultivating an
environment where men and women can work together as equals in the workplace.
We invite boys to join our events today and celebrate opportunities for
all young people to follow their career dreams without barriers.
How do you participate in NASA's Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work
Day?
1. Read through the schedule of activities and planned events. See which
mentors match your interests and which times are convenient for you
to join us. Team up with a girl or a collaborative group and join our
Future Flight Contest.
4. Review the Webcast instructions
if you plan on participating in these events. Be sure to test the technologies
involved and that you have them available on the machine you will be
using. You will need Real Player. If you do not know if you have this,
try opening up an
archived webcast. If it opens and plays fine, then you are all set.
If it doesn't, then you need to download RealPlayer. It is free and
instructions for downloading are on the Webcast instruction pages.
5. Prepare yourself for the event by reading the featured mentor's profile
and related resources. Print out or bookmark the profile and the event
URL. To have the best chance that your question will be answered, follow
these guidelines:
Make sure your question cannot be answered by the existing info.
Make sure your question is relevant to the mentor's work.
Make sure your question requires a brief explanation the mentor can
provide online.
6. Join the event. Remember to continually refresh your screen to see
the ongoing discussion and to read the all dialogue before you post
a question. (Your question may have already been asked and answered.)
7. Enter the Future Flight Contest. Use these resources to get ideas
about inventions NASA researchers and scientists have created:
NASA Spinoffs
- Spinoffs are technologies that are created for one idea and then transferred
to another invention.
Are there other activities or events just for boys?
- The Ms. Foundation has an excellent activity called, "How Far Can
You Imagine?" This is a way for boys to explore personal and professional
aspirations and initiate discussions about the future. Details on this activity.
Questions and comments about this event and other Women of NASA
events can be sent to: tkrieg@mail.arc.nasa.gov
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