WHAT IF IT WERE MEN? Women Begin Holding ‘No Boys Allowed’ Co-Working Spaces

Discontented with the male gender, some women are deciding to form working spaces that prohibit men from joining them. As Bloomberg reports, the Wing, a co-working space and social club in New York, is one example; Rise Collaborative, opening in January in St. Louis, is another; SheWorks Collective in Manhattan; New Women Space, in Brooklyn, N.Y.; and the ubiquitous Hera Hub, in Phoenix, Southern California, Washington, D.C., and Stockholm, also feature no-men-allowed spaces.

Women’s clubs have diminished from the early twentieth century, when over 5,000 women’s clubs existed; as Bloomberg notes, “Membership in these clubs peaked in the mid-1950s but has been on the decline ever since.”