Men's Club

Guardian, 3 March 1998
Still beating us with clubs
by Linda Grant

In response to the release of an 'unsatisfactory' Equal Opportunities Commission document relating to single sex clubs (such as the MCC and Garrick), Grant calls for an amendment to the Sex Descrimination Act. The original law had a loophole for 'private members organisations' which effectively operate an 'apartheid'. The writer unreservedly condemns the fact that many of these men's clubs harbour the male elite, where deals are made, networks reinforced and power consolidated. Whilst women are at a constant disadvantage in life, membership of certain clubs in London are considered invaluable to one's career. Men broker the power without realising it. Grant concludes that they should be forced into compliance - 'there ought to be a law against it'