HR’s funny side: Clothing-optional dining excludes women
June 6, 2008 by Jim GiulianoPosted in: Behavior, Gender discrimination, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
Some organizations manage to come up with creative ideas to mask discrimination. We thought we’d heard them all, until a story started circulating about a Louisiana country club that tried to keep its dining room a men-only enclave.
We suppose you could subtitle this story “Why So Few Members Ordered the Hot Soup.”
Anyway, the club recently lost a court battle to exclude women from eating in the club’s dining room. The loss came despite a valiant effort by the club’s lawyers to invoke a novel reason for the men-only rule:
Some male members liked to dine in the nude. Therefore, the issue wasn’t one of discrimination, but rather one of privacy.
A presumably fully clothed judge rejected the reasoning and ordered the club to open up its dining room to women — who no doubt won’t have much of an appetite.
Tags: Discrimination, men-only, nude
June 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
The women will probably be so busy laughing they won’t be able to eat anything. This is the perfect diet.
I have been suggesting that our company make Fridays clothing optional instead of clothing dress down but so far there is no interest.