Today millions of girls and young women across America are visiting workplaces to participate in "Take Our Daughters to Work Day."
Nell Merlino, founder of Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence, started the tradition when a women's organization asked her to develop a campaign to draw attention to the importance of girl's self esteem.
She was stumped until she attended her father's retirement dinner. As she looked around the room she understood what had helped shape her as a professional.
"So it really was inspired by my own experiences as a girl and not really appreciating until much later how much meeting and seeing what my parents did had an impact on what I chose to do," Merlino said.
Merlino often meets women who say getting to go to work with their parents changed their lives.
"Take Our Daughters to Work Day spoke to a deep concern parents, teachers and employers have about the future for girls and women at work," she said in an interview with Forbes. "It gave girls a way to be visible, valued, and heard differently by the media and in the marketplace."
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