OT: Boy Scouts to allow girls to join

From a scout leader living in a country where antidiscrimination laws forced scouts to allow girls to join:

The program of scouts and girl guides (what girl scouts is called here) depends very much on parents who are recruited as leaders. Those leaders will organise activities based upon their own skills and interests. Male leaders are more likely to organise outdoor activities and especially physically demanding activities such as canoeing, rock climbing, hiking, abseiling than female leader, who are more likely to have indoor activities such as cooking and crafts and other less physical activities. 

This leads to girls groups having different programs to boys groups. Many girls here prefer scouts because of that, and the Human Rights Commissioner appointed to decide when some girls wanted to join boy scouts here, agreed that here was an area where girls were being discriminated against by being prevented from joining an organisation that was inherently more outdoors and more physically challenging.

After a 10 year period of adjustment we have a smoothly running scouting organisation, distinctly different to girl guides but complementary, and where girls are not just welcome but feel comfortable. Of course there are adjustments. No tent sharing, no children to be alone with a leader, all childrens activities to be in groups (patrols). Boys and girls together learn socialising and hierarchies in a different way to the schoolyard, because equality is strictly enforced and bullying monitored.