So some guy in NY is pursuing a class action against Manhattan nightclubs for unlawful gender discrimination by hosting a “ladies night”. While this isn’t a case I would normally be pursuing there is something to be said for for whether ‘ladies night’ constitutes gender discrimination. Working on a paper on workplace gender discrimination has opened my eyes to the so-called world of gender neutrality. Much of this I think is cultural, from places that won’t let women in to some clubs in some parts of the world where you can’t get in unless you have a date. That’s right they won’t let single men or women in. The fun part about that is that it makes strange bedfellows (no pun intended) of the single men and women that want to get in: If you’re flying solo or are with a bunch of friends and the numbers aren’t even you go trawling the line to see if anyone’s got a spare member of the opposite sex to even out the group. Funny things we nightclub patrons do to go to someplace where they overcharge us for drinks, nuke us with cigarette smoke (well they used to anyway) and tear out our eardrums with excessively loud music.
Oh how I long for those days again!!!
More on the gender discrimination at the NYC nightclubs at http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1184144791036&rss=newswire
