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Re:Show HN: I'm starting a social club to solve the male lon... by jl6 on Friday May 30, 2025 @02:41AM (#44133560)
In UK law, it is generally considered sex discrimination to exclude someone on the basis of their sex, unless that exclusion is a “proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”. It’s fairly well understood that women have sex-based needs that justify this aim, but very rarely recognized that men might have such needs too. Maybe this is one of them.

The fear will always be that male-only spaces will become centers of power and decision-making that women are excluded from. That’s where the private London clubs sit. Doesn’t seem as likely to happen in a shed, but who knows?

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Re:Show HN: I'm starting a social club to solve the male lon... by King-Aaron on Friday May 30, 2025 @02:51AM (#44133613)
Generally speaking women are more than welcome at Mens Sheds (In Australia, at least). The ratio of men to women that enjoy sanding wood and tinkering with lawnmowers usually leans more heavily to men, but I've seen the girls around the traps too.
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Re:Show HN: I'm starting a social club to solve the male lon... by parliament32 on Friday May 30, 2025 @12:35PM (#44137863)
>it is generally considered sex discrimination to exclude someone on the basis of their sex

So are women-only gyms not a thing in the UK then? Here in NA they're everywhere, we even have a women-only version of the YMCA (YWCA).

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Re:Show HN: I'm starting a social club to solve the male lon... by dragonwriter on Friday May 30, 2025 @05:13PM (#44139946)
> Here in NA they're everywhere, we even have a women-only version of the YMCA (YWCA).

Despite the names, neither the YWCA or YMCA as broad organizations strictly restrict membership by gender (or religion, for that matter.) My understanding with YWCA specifically is that inclusiveness on gender varies considerably by individual local association.

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Re:Show HN: I'm starting a social club to solve the male lon... by dragonwriter on Friday May 30, 2025 @05:09PM (#44139908)
> In UK law, it is generally considered sex discrimination to exclude someone on the basis of their sex

Whether or not the law prohibits or permits such discrimination, differential treatment (definitely including outright exclusion) on the basis of sex is, obviously sex discrimination, that’s just the meaning of the words.

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