We’ve all seen the Girl Scouts selling their tagalongs and thin mints. More than a few of us used to sell those cookies ourselves. But the Girl Scouts, of course, are far more than cookies, badges and sashes. They’re an organization that’s had an impact on 50 million women. Eighty percent of female business owners are Girl Scout alumnae, as are 70 percent of all women in Congress, and nearly every female astronaut.
Today is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Girl Scouts, and we’re celebrating with the current CEO Anna Maria Chavez. Chavez joins us from the birthplace of the Girl Scouts, Savannah, Georgia.
Irene Saucedo is also here. Homeless her whole life, she joined a Girl Scout leadership development program called the Gamma Sigma Girls in high school. She is now a freshman at Texas State University.
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Anna, we've removed your email address. Thanks.
Anna, it appears you typed your email address in the line that asks for your location, rather than the line that asks for your email address, so I'm not sure why you're angry at NPR...
Well, NPR, enjoy it. The name is fictitious, but I will be warning people about NPR's promises.
"Email addresses are never displayed"
I don't know how it happen, but I would like to remind your promise.
Could please remove the e-mail or the entire comment with email from my last comment?
Laurie, I was fuming when I listened to this idiot - it was unreal. I didn't listened to the whole thing - maybe indeed it was a mockery?
Is this guest host intentionally provocative? Perhaps he is your version of Rush Limbaugh? In what universe is feminism an "f-word"? And what does he mean by asking Celeste if she learned to bake in her youth program? I suggest you send him back to whatever century he came from.
Well, only Britain and this country have scouts (and probably countries blessed by British colonization). Sure, no need for good universal health care. No need for affordable housing. No need for affordable education. Boy and girls scouts will save us. Sure. Civilized countries strive for civilized structures instead.
NPR is getting stupider and stupider. Listening to a Brit waxing about the charms of scouting instead of civilization and to some corporate American type with a voice distorted by sincerity doing the same was a torture. Thanks, NPR.
Despite the Girl Scout's honorable history, it is sadly failing at one issue: not listening to two of its members imploring the organization to stop the use of unsustainably harvested palm oil in its famous cookies: http://www.change.org/petitions/girl-scouts-make-your-cookies-rainforest-safe
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