Inside The Wing, a women-only coworking space and social club in NYC

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-10-14 03:58

Article here. Excerpt:

'A new women’s-only workspace and social club in New York City, created to offer like-minded members a place to network and connect, seeks to offer an alternative to standard coworking spaces and their sometimes “bro-centric” culture, and tap into the “magic that’s created when women gather together.”

The Wing —the brainchild of 29-year-old Audrey Gelman, a PR specialist who was the inspiration for the Marnie character on Girls, and her friend and partner Lauren Kassen, previously a director at ClassPass—came out of a desire to create a women’s-only space that offers the flexibility of coworking spaces and the community of social clubs without being too stuffy. The name itself is a play off the wing of a home, a reference to a space of one’s own.'

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This article sent me on a lengthy search about explicitly men's only clubs (MOCs) around the world and how they are under pressure to admit women. But here is a women's only club being applauded. There doesn't seem to be a coherent reason to oppose MOCs other than "men shouldn't be allowed to have anything like that" and accusations that men fear cooties. Gyms come up a lot. Women want women's only gyms and work out spaces to avoid the stares of men, but the second a man wants a men's only gym, it's "Oh, no, they don't get to avoid staring at me."

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Submitted by MicMac on Sat, 2016-10-15 13:50