Fun Facts About Girl Scouts and Government

The Girl Scout Advocacy group addresses issues concerning girls

Girl Scout advocacy efforts help demonstrate to lawmakers that Girl Scouts is a resource and an authority on issues affecting girls. Based on almost 100 years of experience and developed from extensive research, the Girl Scout Public Policy and Advocacy Office:

• Encourages girls' healthy living through combating Relational Aggression and promoting girl-positive media images;
• Promotes girls' involvement in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM);
• Gives a voice to girls in underserved communities;
• Ensures girls feel emotionally and physically safe;
• Prevents youth violence in communities; and
• Develops financial literacy skills.

We educate policymakers on these important issues affecting girls.

Did you know...

• The first Girl Scout handbook was published in 1913 and was entitled How Girls Can Help Their Country.
• Congress chartered the Girl Scouts in March 1950.
• In Savannah, Georgia, in 1983, the second federal building named after a woman was declared the Juliette Gordon Low Federal Complex.
• Two-thirds of female members of Congress have been Girl Scouts.
• In 2001, the first Honorary Congressional Girl Scout Troop—Troop Capitol Hill—was convened and is currently comprised of all women members of Congress.