Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.

Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.