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Girls
NASA's 6th Annual
Virtual Take Our Daughters To Work Day
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NASA invites you to interact with our nation's
coolest, brightest, most intriguing and talented women and men who
develop and utilize breakthrough technologies that benefit our world!
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Thursday, April 26, 2001
Join our live, interactive events all day!
Do you wonder why this day is devoted to you?
Check out these facts!
- 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).
- Women earn only 18 percent of doctorates in computer science in
the United States. (The New York Times, September 1999).
- 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?,"
1995, 2000).
- 53% of girls said it is true that "people think the most important
thing for girls to do is to get married and have children." (Girls Inc.,
Taking the Lead: Girls' Rights in the 21st Century, 2000)
- The top five fastest growing occupations between 1998 and 2008
are information technology occupations, which require advanced computer
skills. However, girls enroll more in clerical and data entry computer
courses, the contemporary equivalent of typing classes, than in advanced
computer classes (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections,
1999; American Institutes of 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.)
- Many more facts on Women and Girls can be found on the Ms. Foundation
for Women
site
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So what can you do to change these facts?
- Ask your parents, parents' friends, aunts, uncles, neighbors,
anyone who has a job that sounds interesting to you, to tell you about
it. Spend a few hours at their work, encourage them to participate in
this day.
- If you can't visit someone on the job, meet and visit our NASA
folks virtually and hear about their work and careers. Our day long
interactive Forum, Webchats,
and Webcasts will give you insight into their backgrounds, education,
career paths, and what they actually do in their work.
- Join our Women of NASA project
to participate in year long mentoring activities and find out about
other NASA women and cool careers.
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.
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 all dialogue before you post
a question. (Your question may have already been asked and answered.)
7. Enter the Technology Innovations 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.
What if I miss this day?
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