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Article: Inspiring girls to be strong, smart & bold.(1 WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND EARLY CHOICES)
- Article from:
- Regional Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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GIRLS INCORPORATED, a nonprofit organization that serves girls aged 6 to 18, has been dramatically influenced by the transformation that Claudia Goldin describes. The group began in 1864 in Waterbury, Connecticut, as a place for girls to gather while their mothers worked in the factories. An early statement of purpose (1937) was explicit about its mission of preparing young women to be wives and mothers. "Little girls of today are the homemakers of the future, the mothers of the next generation of citizens. Opportunities given to them now for cultural background, for healthy minds and bodies, for training in homecraft and a basic knowledge of motherhood--these determine ...