S.F. Club Reaffirms Male-Only Policy
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SAN FRANCISCO — Members of the venerable all-male University Club of San Francisco have voted to maintain the club’s 98-year tradition barring women from membership.
“We don’t discriminate against women,” club President Murray Fox said Friday after the vote. “We love women. They come here frequently. We love to have them here, but not as members.”
The bylaws describe the 765-member club on Nob Hill as “an association of gentlemen.”
Without disclosing the count, club clerk Joe Gaston said, “The results of the balloting on the issue of admitting women to membership . . . are that the current bylaws are sustained.”
A city ordinance enacted last month bans sex discrimination at private clubs with more than 400 members and that regularly serve meals and receive payments from non-members who dine or rent rooms at the club. The University Club accepts no payments from outside sources and strictly conforms to the letter of the ordinance, Fox said.
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