Spring 2025

Where Are the Women?

The Girl Scouts' Campaign for the First Statue of Women in Central Park

  • Interest Level: Grade 2 - Grade 5
  • Reading Level: Grade 2

When a group of New York City Girl Scouts learn in 2016 that there are no statues of women in Central Park, they organize and combine forces in a quest to change that shocking fact.

The girls raise funds, spread awareness, provide testimony, and convince city officials to erect the first monument of women in Central Park. What started out as a discovery on a field trip turns into a four-year process of not giving up or giving in. This powerfully true story chronicles how young girls made a significant impact through unity and perseverance.

“An inspiring story of passion and perseverance.”—Diana Mahoney, CEO Girl Scouts of Connecticut

Where Are the Women? presents colorful settings of determined Girl Scouts, their energy and steady progress, a great gift for kids and parents alike. The goal, the Women’s Rights Pioneers statue, inaugurated in 2020, a century after women won the right to vote.”—Nancy Scott, Professor Emirita, Brandeis University

“I love this book! It’s perfect for both girls and boys—and their parents. It makes the women in the monument colorfully come alive for all of us.”—Brenda Feigen, American feminist activist, film producer & lawyer, former VP of NOW, co-founder of Ms. Magazine

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978-1-64371-380-9
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Interest Level Grade 2 - Grade 5
Reading Level Grade 2
Genre Social Studies
Copyright 2025
Publisher Red Chair Press
Imprint Red Chair Press Books for Young Readers
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2025-02-04
Text Type Narrative Nonfiction
BISACS JNF071000, JNF023000, JNF025250
Dewey 369.46
Dimensions 10 x 8
Lexile 810
Features Author/Illustrator biography, Bibliography/further reading, Original artwork, Teaching Guides, and eSource