Girl Guides

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A Girl Guide troop in Britain, 1918
A Girl Guide troop in Britain, 1918

Girl Guides or Girl Scouts is a parallel movement to Scouting. When Scouting was founded in 1907 by Robert Baden-Powell it was intended for boys only. As early as 1909, girls wanted to join the Scout groups. Baden-Powell rejected these wishes and asked his sister Agnes to start a parallel movement for girls. Other influential people were Juliette Low in the USA, Olga Malkowska in Poland and Antoinette Butte in France.[1]

Early programs for Girl Guides included educating the girls in home economics with items like nutrition, cooking or nursing, as well as camping, sailing, knotting and signalling. Today, most Guide and Scout programs are similar.

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 countries.

  1. ^ Our History. WAGGGS (2004). Retrieved on 2007-07-09.
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