December 19, 2002
NCWO's Hall of Hypocracy
National Council of Women's Organization's Hall of Hypocrisy lists companies who are run by/have employees that are members of Augusta National Golf Club, claiming these companies support discrimination of women.
The question I've wondered for a while is, are there women who have tried to gain admittance to Augusta and meet the qualitification (other than gender)? Seeing as the membership is pretty is mostly Fortune 500 CEOs and the like, I can think of only a handful of women who could meet the criteria -- Martha Stewart, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina -- and are any of them golfers?
Augusta needs to remove all gender/race/relagion biases but I see nothing wrong with wanting to uphold a high standard of desire to belong to Augusta for the world-class golf and comraderie, rather then wanting to join as a political statement.
Posted by blipsman at December 19, 2002 12:13 AM