Augusta National- No longer for boys only
This video came from the news which announced on August 20th, 2012 that Augusta National, an exclusive golf club has now finally, after ten years, admitted two female members into the group. Augusta National has always been a golf club with wealthy males in it and has never allowed women members. This video announces the joy that many women had on this day because of the admission of the female members. The video shows the interview of Martha Burk, an early critic of Augusta National's "males only" policy. Martha Burk started the protest against this ten years ago encouraging others to join in order to change the corporate word. Even though the allowing of women into Augusta National was a main goal for Burk, it is only one of many. For the past ten years she and other women have thrown many law suits onto other corporate companies in order to stop this discrimination towards hard working women.When I first saw the starting preview to this video online I really didn't think I would have much interest because I don't have much of an interest in golf, but after the first minute of this video I was amazed as to what this one woman Martha Burk has started and how equality between women and men is still progressing. I honestly had no idea there was so much inequality and unfairness towards women still going on in both the corporate world and the sports world. My favorite part of this video was how Martha Burk was addressing the fact that this whole thing isn't just about golf and that women can now be admitted into Augusta National but that this is another huge step for all working women across the country within the corporate world.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/08/20/nr-brooke-burk.cnn
It is a shame that it took 10 years for those women to be able to play golf with the other men. We have just as many rights as they do. What did woman work so hard for years ago? They wanted to have rights and women should have the right to golf wherever they choose. There are plenty of women golfers that are way better than men. In my eyes I feel that men are just afraid of the competition that women give them. And if in the end we do win, then they are left embarrassed. Instead of being embarrassed men should just try harder next time. We all need a little competition in our lives but by completely turning women away is just wrong.
ReplyDeleteI think this has taken a big step. Even though we have made big steps with Women's rights many years ago, there is still a lot that needs to be changed. Today, there is a big problem with Country Clubs. Women and families are allowed to join their husbands who belong to the country club but cannot join alone. If there is a single women who wants to join a country club it is almost impossible.I think this goes hand in hand with with the whole golf situation because many people join country clubs to play golf and it is another version of a high class club where women are not allowed to join. Hopefully within the next few years we can make even more improvements and at one point hopefully women will be able to be even more independent and be given the opportunity to join country clubs and golf clubs without a man.
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