Girl/Boy Scouts

From USA Today:

"Girl Scouts: There's no need to let girls into Boy Scouts"

It  has been over a month since the Boy Scouts of America announced it would accept girls into its core programs, but many Girl Scout participants and their parents remain skeptical of the change and its purported usefulness to young women. For over a century, scouting has been largely single gender. Although the Boy Scouts has co-ed programs such as its Venturing program, it never before welcomed girls into its Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts programs.  And many Girl Scouts don’t see why they should start now. “Our experiences are created for and with girls,” said Andrea Bastiani Archibald, the Girl Scouts’ Chief Girl and Family Engagement Officer. “I think that’s important when we consider what appeals to them and what benefits them most.” The Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. has been vocal in its opposition to the Boy Scouts' decision, with its president Kathy Hopinkah Hannan writing to the organization in August, asking the board to refrain from recruiting girls. Such a decision would “result in fundamentally undercutting Girl Scouts of the USA,” she wrote  The Girl Scouts has long touted the unique benefits it provides girls, citing its long history of serving young women through programs built around the way girls learn and interact with each other.The Boy Scouts of America acknowledged there are learning differences between boys and girls.“That’s why it’s important to keep it as single gender as we can,” said Lucia Cronin, chairwoman of the National Cub Scouting Committee. She said smaller gatherings of the Cub Scouts, the program for first- through fifth-graders, will still remain single gender, but larger gatherings may be co-ed depending on the decision of the leaders. The Cub Scouts will include girls starting in 2018. The Boy Scouts will do the same in 2019, she said.  This has left some wondering why the Boy Scouts is offering these programs to girls if gatherings will still be largely single gender.

^ My brother and I were Cub Scouts and then Boy Scouts and my sister was a Girl Scout. I don't see why there can't be separate organizations for boys and girls in this case. Both genders are taught to respect others and how to be good citizens. ^

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/11/18/girl-scouts-theres-no-need-let-girls-into-boy-scouts/877498001/