By Sangamon Sun |
Mar 12, 2024
The Girl Scouts organization, best known for its cookie sales, is an organization rooted in character, courage, and confidence to teach young girls leadership skills. Before its creation in 1912, organizations geared towards teaching young girls about anything other than the usual gendered norms was unheard of and discouraged. Juliette Gordon Low, a Savannah, Georgia native, sought to change that.In 1911, while living in the United Kingdom, Low ran into Sir Robert Baden-Powell, a retired English General, at a party. Baden-Powell had created scouting in the U.K., and his...