UK: More girls than boys join Scouts

Submitted by Broadsword on Fri, 2011-04-15 07:10

Article here. Excerpt:

'When Robert Baden-Powell pioneered the Scouts movement a century ago, girls clamoured to join but he insisted that it should be boys only.

So he might be rather dismayed at today’s news: for the first time more girls than boys are joining the scouts.

More than 4,000 girls signed up last year, making them the majority of recruits for the first time since the Scouts widened its scope to include both genders 35 years ago.
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It was after Baden-Powell decided that Scout troops should not be mixed that the Girl Guides were founded in 1909.

A spokesman for the Scouts said that separation of the sexes was out-of-date now. ‘Most young people go to co-educational schools and Scouts give them an opportunity to work together outside school as well,’ he said.

In the year up to the end of January the Scouts had 4,330 girl recruits and 3,796 boys.'

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