As five California girls fight to join the boys-only organization,the Guardian looks at how the American scouting programs differ in activities, badges and moreA group of five Girl Scouts in northern California are fighting to join the Boy Scouts, or saying that they found the girls’ group to be too sedate.
Allie Westover,Skyler Westover, Ella Jacobs, and Daphne Mortenson and Taylor Alcozer – who call themselves the Unicorns – aren’t the first girls to try to join the 105-year-old boys-only organization,according to the modern York Times. Since the 1970s, a dozen enjoy tried to get admitted. No one has been successful.
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Source: theguardian.com