Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered.

Today is Take Your Child to Work Day. And I have a guest sitting next to me.

Hi, I'm Emmy Rosenwald. And who exactly are you?

I'm your daughter, silly. Emmy is seven, a second grader at only elementary school in Maryland.

She really wanted to come to work with me today,

so we decided to record this episode together about the history of Take Your Child to Work Day.

First of all, we should thank the person who came up with this idea.

My wife, Megan.

Hi, Mommy.

From a history perspective, I'm really glad Emmy is here

with me today, because daughters, little girls all over the country, are the reason to take

your child to workday actually exists. Here's Emmy to explain. In 1992, some famous and important woman, like Gloria Steinem,

were worried about girls that didn't feel so good about themselves.

So they came up with a great idea.

It was called Take Your Daughter to Work Day,

and the idea was to show little girls the importance of women in the workplace

and how they could use all the neat things they were learning in school to have really cool careers.

Well, after about 10 years, some people got upset that boys weren't allowed to come along too.

So girls said, okay, fine, you can come too.

All around the country, companies big and small began hosting special

programs for kids on the 4th Thursday of April. Why Thursday? So kids can go back to school on

Friday and discuss all the cool things they saw and learned. The day itself is promoted by

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