The Wing - the female-only club that isn't

[Clymene]

The Wing was set up by two women in 2016 to be a co-working and community club for women. There are branches in New York, California and London.

They weren't legally allowed to make it women-only so they have had to call it women-focused. You can guess what's happened can't you?

https://nypost.com/2019/12/17/men-are-showing-up-to-the-wing-and-women-are-pissed/

This is why we need single sex spaces. Because unless a space is specifically designated as single sex, men will just come and take it over

Why can't they just respect it as a women's only space? Because they have to have everything. Having just one man there would completely change the atmosphere, and I think this would partly be down to the type of man who would want to be there and the type of man who would actually be so brazen as to go.

Online or in real life, women can't have space it's for themselves.

In the UK we need to learn directly from this and begin to champion our own existing legal right to single sex spaces.

Focus on this -what we do have in a celebratory way rather than allowing the TRAs/MRAs to always put us on the back foot defending them.

Maybe if we do this enough it will inspire women in New York to change their own laws. (I hope so for selfish reasons because I'd like to live there one day!)

There are single sex members clubs aren’t there? Or is that just in the UK? If they’d done it on that basis it could have worked, but I suppose they aren’t quite the same as co-working spaces.

We must be chaperoned at all times.

I think it's the US rules that forced them to let men in. In the U.K. we are in theory allowed to have single sex spaces but in practice, organisations are not very good at enforcing that.

It varies from state to state, I believe. Maybe even more locally than that.

We’re committed to our mission of the professional, civic, social, and economic advancement of women through community, and as a part of this, are proud to offer a Scholarship Program, as well as programming designed to impact the women and girls in our surrounding communities

What a clunky sentence- especially that use of "impact"

I had a look at the London site. I can't really work out what the point is or who it is aimed at.