Men’s clubs
The Australian is leading a charge against that bastion of of old conservative ways, men’s clubs.
Melbourne’s Athenaeum Club has been split over the issue of women members, with a high-powered group of 130 business and civic leaders being blocked in their push to have women accepted as members for the first time in the club’s 142-year history.It’s a Men only club. If that’s not your bag, don’t join! To join a club knowing it’s constitution and then agitate to change it suggests an agenda outside of the clubs reason for existence. If you find it objectionable that men gather as a group and talk men’s business then complain to each other at your next mixed-gender function and leave the blokes to have their fun. There are woman’s clubs I can’t join, and don’t want to; and I belong to an ex-infantry officers group that meet regularly. There are no woman as there is yet to be a woman commissioned as an Infantry Officer. What’s wrong with that? For that matter, what woman would want to join? Let the old guys have their fun; nothing to see here, move on