Monday, February 15, 2016

Clubby

This "vibrant intellectual community" allows women to be members now.

"For its first 110 years, the Cosmos Club did not permit women members, and forbade female guests to enter by the front door or to enter rooms reserved for members. In 1987, the Washington, D.C., Human Rights Office ruled that there was probable cause to believe that the club's men-only policy violated the city's anti-discrimination law. The Office was ready to order public hearings on the case, which could have resulted in the loss of all city licenses and permits if the all-male policy had continued, but the Cosmos Club then voted on June 19, 1988, to accept women as members."

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_Club

I got to go there once! I was allowed! I got to go in through the front door and everything!

I'm so lucky.

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