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New carefully curated, women-only work space opens in Georgetown
Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2018-04-12 10:23
Article here. Excerpt:
'Just minutes away from the hustle and bustle of M Street in Georgetown, The Wing offers women of the District a space to work in no-man’s land.
The Wing – a co-working space exclusively for women with perks and amenities for its annual members – opened its doors Thursday in a 10,000 square-foot office building at 1056 Thomas Jefferson St. NW. The shared space offers a variety of areas for working, a cafe, an all-female author library and an art gallery featuring female artists.'
Also see: Are women-only members’ clubs sexist?
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Oy!
A private woman-only club is fine. But female-only authors in the library? Whoa. Holy anti-intellectualism, Batman! So if a lady has a hankering to read the greatest single book ever written on the laws of natural mathematics, she's SOL because Isaac Newton had a dick? Or should she be interested in the three great papers written by Einstein that snagged him what, two, or was it three, Nobel prizes, launching the field of modern physics (ie, quantum physics), during "the summer of miracles", she likewise is screwed?
Sexism like many other isms is indeed fundamentally anti-intellectual, among other things. The sexism driving this phenom. is no different.
Men Only Workspace
I've been trying to track down what happened when a men only workspace was announced for Brisbane, Australia: "Nomadic Thinkers." It was at the end of 2016.
The hysterical reactions to the very idea may have driven it out of existence before it ever started.
Is there any further history on this particular effort?
What are the histories of any other attempted or actually functioning coworking spaces?
Seattle WA has about 22 coworking sites. One is "targeted toward women," another is "geared toward Black entrepreneurs. No direct mention of "only," though that may be the actual practice in either or both cases.