Cookies or Careers? Gender Biases in Scouting

You see those adorable little Girl Scouts selling cookies outside your local supermarket, and you'd think they might be getting some job skills that will be useful in the future. That may be true, but a recent study of the official Boy Scout and Girl Scout manuals show that boys and girls are being prepared in very different ways for very different types of jobs. Distinct gender biases in the two organizations were revealed.