context content and approach compared gender messages in girl scout and boy scout handbooks by kathleen e. denny and the university of maryland they put on the programs are still pushing these very outdated gender roles to both sexes only two percent of girls got to be is included science was six percent a boy scout programs do while six percent a boy scout programs were related while eleven percent girl scout activities were are really so you see these like you know the differences here the study also point out that the negotiation between traditional progressive feminine identities is a problematic balance for girls today the gender messages being communicated the girl scouts appear to be preparing girls to one day take on the dual roles of devoted worker and selfless mother while the boys handbook communicates clear messages about how to roll normative masculinity and scientific rather than an artistic orientation to me let everybody learn whatever they want so that they themselves individually can have happy fruitful lives and this is leave gender out of it thank you all right which is what