Salvation Army: Gender Trends


Figure 1.-- Here we have members of a Salvation Army Young People's band in the late 1950s. All of the images we have found show boy members.

We have very limited infomation about the SA Junior Auxileries at this time. The limited information we have on the SA and the few images show boys participating. We are not sure why this was. Perhaps the boys were more interested because if the activity was primarily brass band instruments and drums. We do not know if girls participated or even if they were allowed to do so. I think it would not have been considered quite proper for girls to participate in the early 20th century. Even in the mid-20th century, however, we still see band griups made up entirely of boys.















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