![]() ![]() The new name was to be analogous to Boy Scouts, which had began in America in 1908.įrom the outset, Girl Scouts offered a program that combined traditional domestic roles with practical feminism that enlarged girls' worlds and heralded a new day for women. Initially called Girl Guides as their counterparts were in England (a similar group started by Lord Robert Baden-Powell and his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell), by 1913 they changed their name to Girl Scouts. She envisioned, however, that Girl Scouting would eventually be "for all the girls of America." Although Low was completely untrained in girls' work and in organizing a national movement, her wide social network helped the group grow steadily. Juliette Gordon Low brought Girl Scouting to her home-town of Savannah, Georgia, with a troop of just eighteen girls. Furthermore, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGS), formed in 1921, comprises an international sisterhood of more than 8.5 million members in 144 countries. ![]() ![]() In 2003, there were 3.8 million Girl Scouts more than fifty million women and girls have belonged to the organization since its founding on March 12, 1912. ![]() Girl Scouts of the USA, the largest voluntary organization for girls in America, is the only major group largely run by women ever since its inception. ![]()
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