New York Girl Scouts Raise Money for Women's Statue in Central Park

A Girl Scout troop in New York is raising awareness and funds for the first statue of a woman in New York City's famed Central Park. If you discount fictional characters like Mother Goose and Alice in Wonderland, all the 23 statues or busts of real humans in the park honor famous men. "There are no statues of women, and there's tons of men,'' says Pippa Lee, 10, a scout with Manhattan's Girl Scout Troop 3484.  "We really need a woman's statue for...

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