Juliette Gordon Low - Philanthropist - Biography.com
This organization has been in the news a lot of late.
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The early troops were known as Girl Guides, and were originally led by Baden-Powell's 51-year-old sister, Agnes. These were girls who had shown such an interest in Boy Scouting that they appeared in their brother's troops, dressed in piecemeal Boy Scout uniforms, eager to learn the same skills the boys were learning. Agnes was overwhelmed by the increasing number of girls showing an interest in becoming a Girl Guide, and both the Baden-Powells and Low agreed that these girls should have their own groups—mostly to appease apprehensions that the girls would feminize the boy's troops, or that the boy's groups would create masculine girls.
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