re
early female architect barred from men's club
Here
is some background information:
From the
mid-70s to the late 80s there
were many demonstrations, often led by lawyers, journalists, and those in other professions who were excluded from work-related discussions
held
at men-only and sometimes white-only social clubs.
The
sites included some university alumni clubs. Usually there
was extensive newspaper/TV coverage. Histories of those events and lawsuits might identify participants.
Quitting
Is Not Acquitting - The New York Times, 3 Jan 1977
The
troublesome thing about private clubs, in law and in fact, is that they are ... Why men only, after all, in Washington's Metropolitan and Cosmos Clubs?
Washington Post, 7
Nov
1987. The sweeping decision is the latest development
in a long-running conflict over men-only clubs in the District, and arises out of a two-pronged .
Club
Doors Are Open, But Women Draw Back - The New York ..., 14
Sep1988
Of the University Club's 4,000 members, only 20 are women; .. Many clubs have fought such laws and lost; a few are still fighting
Harvard Law Review,
Vol. 104, No. 8 (Jun., 1991), pp. 1835-1856 (22 pages).
Private social clubs with discriminatory membership policies are fast becoming extinct. Such clubs face mounting informal pressure'.
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Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Question about early female architect barred from men's club
At 07:41 PM 9/10/2021, Jonathan Coopersmith wrote:
There are other stories about other women unable to meet with professors and other professionals because their clubs banned women -- e.g. Anna G. Perkins,
Yale Needs Women.
I'm working on a condensation for CACM of Turing Award winner Dana Scott's recent oral history. In it he says this:
Close friends of [Alfred] Tarski were Raphael and Julia Robinson. Julia did her thesis under Tarski, but you can't imagine the difference for women between 1950 and today. Only
men were allowed in the Berkeley Faculty Club, so when Tarski suggested at a lunch that there were many problems to be solved about rational arithmetic, Julia was not present. Raphael suggested that to her later, and that's how Julia's famous thesis eventually
evolved, where she showed the undecidability of the theory of rational numbers.
If all goes well, the condensation and a pointer to the full interview should be published in about six months.
Len