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From: pmd@cbsck.UUCP (Paul M. Dubuc)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Ladies' Night Illegal in California
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 13:22:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 13:22:21 1985
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>> The California Supreme Court just ruled that ladies' nights in bars and other
>> businesses are illegal because they discriminate on the basis of gender.  No
>> kidding, this is for real.  I just heard it on the 11:00 news.
>
>I wonder why the court thinks "ladies' nights" are any different from
>any other Affirmative Action program.  My understanding is that the
>usual reason for such affairs is to attempt to remedy the great
>preponderance of men in these bars.  By giving women economic
>incentives to visit the bar, they hope to remedy the sexual imbalance
>in their establishment.

Are "ladies' nights" really an Affirmative Action program?  What form
of discrimination exists in bars with such a preponderance of men?
Do the men impose some kind of barriers to shun women who want to go
to the bars?

My understanding of the reason behind "ladies' nights" is the desire of
men to meet more women at the bar.  Bars that don't attract a lot of
women don't get a lot of business from men either.

"Of course, I could be wrong."

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Paul Dubuc 	cbsck!pmd