Girl Scouts
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Girl Guides or Girl Scouts is a parallel movement to Scouting. It
evolved from the Scouting movement in the early years of the 20th
century. Girls were attracted to Scouting from its inception in
1907. In different places around the world, the movement developed
in diverse ways. In some places, girls attempted to join Scouting
organisations and it was decided that single-gender organisations
were a better solution. In other places, girls groups were started,
some of them later to open up to boys or merge with boys'
organisations. In other instances, mixed groups were formed,
sometimes to later split. In the same way, the name Girl Guide or
Girl Scout has been used by groups at different times and in
different places, with some groups changing from one to another. In
the past, boys had to join the Boy Scouts or Cub Scouts but in
recent years Guides has been open for both boys and girls to join in
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In 1909, Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, decided that
girls should not be in the same organisation as the boys, and the
Girl Guides were founded in the UK in 1910. Many, though by no means
all, Girl Guide and Girl Scout groups across the globe trace their
roots to this point. Agnes Baden-Powell was in charge of Girl
Guiding in UK in its early years. Other influential people were
Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA, Olga
Malkowska in Poland and Antoinette Butte in France.
The name Guide was taken from a famous frontier regiment in the
British Indian army, the Corps of Guides, which was noted for its
skills in tracking and survival.
Two central themes have been present from the earliest days of the
movement: domestic skills and "a kind of practical feminism which
embodies physical fitness, survival skills, camping, citizenship
training, and career preparation".These two themes have been
emphasised differently at different times and by different groups,
but have remained central to Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting.
There has been much discussion about how similar Girl Guiding and
Girl Scouting should be to boys' Scouting programs. While many girls
saw what the boys were doing and wanted to do it too, girls'
organizations have sought to avoid simply aping the boys.
Even when most Scout organizations became coeducational Guiding
remained separate in many countries to provide a female-centered
program. Internationally it is governed by the World Association of
Girl Guides and Girl Scouts with member organizations in 144
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