‘Breaking Barriers’ badge teaches Guides around limitations women and girls deal with and look at hard-hitting concerns such as pressured marriage.

“It's about having the very same social, political and economic legal rights between the two sexes,” stated 13-year-old Zainab Ale, without reluctance. Question a Guide on the subject of feminism these days, and you should expect an educated reply.

Zainab is one of the 1st receivers of a brand new Girlguiding badge for universal gender equality, revealed on Wednesday, the latest phase in the feminist renovation of the 105-year-old organisation.

The modernisation of the Guides has gained speed ever since the appointment of a new ceo in 2012, and while a generation in the past badges like homemaker, hostess and needlewoman could quite possibly have inadvertently restrained members’ perspective to their own front door, the brand new badge is supposed to widen their geographical and p ... Read more »