Surely it’s only the uneducated…
by digby
This is a problem with the lower order, amirite? Surely, it isn’t manifested among educated elites …
From the Harvard Crimson:
The Fox Club will not allow the nine women who had enjoyed “provisional” status in the group to become full members, effectively expelling the women and marking the club’s return to all-male status almost two years after it first became co-ed.
The move, detailed in internal correspondence between recent Fox graduates, ends the club’s experiment in co-ed membership, which began in October 2015 when undergraduates admitted a group of upperclassmen women as members. That decision deeply divided the club, pitting graduate and undergraduate members against each other as Harvard administrators pressured final clubs to go gender-neutral.
Ultimately, the club’s graduate leadership allowed the women to stay on as “provisional” members—a designation that many male members also adopted at the time in a show of support for their female peers. But the club did not invite any more women to join the club, accepting an all-male class of membership last fall.
The Fox Club will not allow the nine women who had enjoyed ‘provisional’ status in the group to become full members, marking the club’s return to all-male status.
It’s only 2017. What’s the hurry? And anyway, it’s not as if elite clubs at Ivy league universities provide any special professional networking possibilities.
Oh, and look here. The ultimate elite organization:
