Internships for Girls

By Gloria I. Mobley

The kind of career-development initiatives encouraged by the School-to-Work Opportunities Act signed into law by President Clinton in May are particularly valuable for girls. As the Take Our Daughters to Work Day, sponsored each spring by the Ms. Foundation, has demonstrated on a national scale, placing the career focus on girls, if only for a symbolic day, can help combat the sudden drop in self-esteem many of them experience at the onset of adolescence. At that crucial preparatory time of life, girls tend to form opinions of themselves based on their physical appearance, rather than on their...