Theoretical Foundation As an organization the Girl Scouts of Western Washington are concerned about their diversity, because their organization is not incredibly diverse, they are not serving all of the populations that they could. Participation in the Girl Scouts can be life changing for some, for instance more women who are politicians, CEOs, congresswomen, astronauts, and other leaders in the US were scouts than who were not (Chávez, 2016). The Girl Scouts’ main goal is to empower, educated, and give resources to girls so that they may become strong, confidant women, it only makes sense that all girls should get the opportunity to participate in the Scouts. At the same time however we are in a place of history where talks about minorities,
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For many counties the significant clusters were small, only a few block groups marked as ‘significant’, which in all honesty was not all that surprising. It was not all that surprising because Washington’s population of people of color is not all that large especially when you get outside of the Seattle-Tacoma metro region (QuickFacts Washington, n.d.). What was both surprising and unsurprising at the same time was that three of the seventeen counties that were ran through a cluster analysis had no significant block groups at all. These were Jefferson, San Juan, and Wahkiakum Counties, to which it seems like the problem was that these counties all have very small populations to begin with, Wahkiakum County for instance has a population of around 5,000 people in the whole county, whereas King County has a population of around 2 million people (Quickfacts Washington, n.d). Another reason that they may have not had any significant clusters is that they are not close enough to a large metro region to have a large amount of diversity, both in terms of race and of income. It should also be noted that while Jefferson County is on the large size for area, it is mostly covered by the Olympic National Park which limits its population and thus its diversity. It was thus not surprising that the areas with the most significantly diverse block groups were also the areas that are among the highest in population and density and also close to big cities such as Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Olympia, and
For many counties the significant clusters were small, only a few block groups marked as ‘significant’, which in all honesty was not all that surprising. It was not all that surprising because Washington’s population of people of color is not all that large especially when you get outside of the Seattle-Tacoma metro region (QuickFacts Washington, n.d.). What was both surprising and unsurprising at the same time was that three of the seventeen counties that were ran through a cluster analysis had no significant block groups at all. These were Jefferson, San Juan, and Wahkiakum Counties, to which it seems like the problem was that these counties all have very small populations to begin with, Wahkiakum County for instance has a population of around 5,000 people in the whole county, whereas King County has a population of around 2 million people (Quickfacts Washington, n.d). Another reason that they may have not had any significant clusters is that they are not close enough to a large metro region to have a large amount of diversity, both in terms of race and of income. It should also be noted that while Jefferson County is on the large size for area, it is mostly covered by the Olympic National Park which limits its population and thus its diversity. It was thus not surprising that the areas with the most significantly diverse block groups were also the areas that are among the highest in population and density and also close to big cities such as Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Olympia, and