Sunday, April 08, 2012
The Decline of the Old Boys' Clubs - The Daily Beast - Have all-male clubs lost their cachet? A decade ago, the testosterone fortress of the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia was a battlefront of the feminist movement. Now, as the club contemplates a historic first offer of membership to a woman—Virginia “Ginni” Rometty, chief executive officer of IBM, which is a sponsor of this week’s Masters Tournament—the most remarkable part of the story is that this time there’s a near-universal consensus. “A lot is different now,” says Ilene Lang, the president and chief executive officer of Catalyst, a global firm that studies women in business. “To most people looking at this, it just seems silly.” Yet silly or no, Lang says it’s about time Augusta got on the distaff side of history. “It is still discrimination,” she says, “and it’s ridiculous.”
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