These Daughters Continued Their Parents' Legacy

For Take Your Child To Work Day, we're examining three women who took their parents' legacy and ran with it—though not always for the better. FACT OF THE DAY: The American Academy of Pediatrics says that households where two parents work can expose kids to a better sense of gender equality. [Curiosity Daily logo]( Take Your Child To Work Day Take Your Child To Work Day started as Take Your Daughter To Work Day, a day to encourage kids and show them what participating in the workforce is all about. We're looking at accomplished daughters today—women who took a page from their esteemed parents' books and changed the world (sometimes) for the better. Let's start with the woman who invented computer programs 100 years before the first computer. Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Eschewed Poetry For Programming [Ada Lovelace]( Lord Byron was the Mick Jagger of the Romantic era and Lady Wentworth was a reserved mathematical genius. So when their marriage acrimoniously ended, Lady Wentworth was determined to fill their daughter Ada's head with math instead of poetry. The result? A prescient prodigy who wrote the first computer program a century before the first computer. Find out how by clicking below. [THE MOTHER OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING]( Mary Shelley's Mom Was An Early Feminist Icon [Mary Shelley]( Mary Shelley is best known as the author of Frankenstein (and, coincidentally, her friendship with Lord Byron), but she wasn't the first female icon in her family. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and has come to be recognized as one of England's first feminist philosophers. Learn more about this prodigious family by clicking below. [GIRL POWER AND GOTHIC HORROR]( Marie Antoinette Should Have Listened To Her Mother [Did Marie Antoinette Ever Say "Let Them Eat Cake?"]( When your parents are the heads of the Holy Roman Empire, Queen is pretty much the only career on the table. But if Marie Antoinette had listened to her mother Maria Theresa (specifically, the part about how extravagant spending doesn't please the populace), she might have met a very different end. Was Marie Antoinette really so bad, though? Click below to get the full story. [LET THEM EAT MISQUOTATIONS]( Follow us and smarten up your social media. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Google+]( [Pinterest]( [undefined]( [Advertise on Curiosity]( Not Curious Anymore? If you already know everything, you might as well hit the button below to unsubscribe, or just update your [email preferences](. [UNSUBSCRIBE]( Discover More Amazing Stories Every Day! Start following the subjects that interest you most. We do the work of writing, designing and curating can't-miss articles and videos in those subjects, so you can let your natural curiosity lead the way. [EXPLORE ALL SUBJECTS]( [Unsubscribe]( | [Update Preferences]( Beacon Solutions, Inc. 4809 Ravenswood Ave Chicago, IL 60640