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V.M.I., which receives $9 million annually from the state -- a third of its budget -- is an old-fashioned military school, but only about 15% of its graduates enter the armed forces. The majority move smoothly into the Old Dominion's most powerful business and political ranks. Barring women from the school effectively curtails their access to that old-boy network...
...those women access to the networking opportunities provided by final clubs. Secret societies and elite clubs institutionalize choices about who has the right appearance, who has the right parents, who attended the right school. Those outside the sphere of acceptance are locked out--unable to gain access to the old-boy network of business connections...
...city by subway -- unheard of for a Politburo member -- and commuted from distant suburbs to check on transportation conditions for workers. He would even barge into meat stores to find out who was getting the best cuts. These shock tactics delighted ordinary Muscovites but infuriated the party "Mafia," an old-boy network of distribution officials and real-life gangsters...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) rejected Schkolnick's final appeal, claiming a lack of jurisdiction to intervene in the matters of a private club. SWAT has been swatted, ZIP has been zipped and the Fly remains open--open to continue its antiquarian membership policies, open to perpetuate an elitist old-boy network, open to treat women like slabs of meat...
HUNGARY needs a women's movement now. The country's entire legal, social and economic structure is being revamped at this very moment, and women must act before biased laws are enacted, before an unjust welfare system is created and before Hungary builds its own old-boy network...