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Sunderland social club investigated over sexism claims

Jun 26 2011 by Rachel Wearmouth, Sunday Sun

Mill View Social Club, in Sunderland

A WORKING men's club is being investigated after regulars tried to kick out a woman who went into the bar for a drink.

Mill View Social Club, in Sunderland, has been accused of sexual discrimination after a committee member asked the woman to leave because it “upset” the regulars.

Locals say women get booed and jeered if they enter the bar.

The move to ban women from the club is not allowed under the Equality Act 2010 which means clubs cannot discriminate because of gender.

And now the club, whose committee members have called an extraordinary meeting about the incident, will be investigated by the Working Men's Club and Institute Union (CIU).

A regular who did not want to be named told the Sunday Sun: “Often when a woman comes in she gets jeered at and booed.

“They are like dinosaurs and they don’t realise that what they are doing leaves them open to litigation.

“You are talking about retired miners and ship builders who go in the club and who are stuck in their ways.”

It has been a “tradition” to stop women using one area of the bar, and staff are instructed not to serve them, the regular said.

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