California Club Vote OKs Admitting Women as Members
The California Club, for 100 years one of Los Angeles’ most elite private men’s clubs, announced today that its membership has voted overwhelmingly to change its bylaws to permit the admission of women as regular members for the first time.
A statement by the club’s board of directors said that of the 1,275 regular members eligible to vote, a total of 1,045, or more than 81%, sent in their ballots. Of these, 952, or 90%, voted for the change in bylaws, 81 voted against and 12 returned ballots abstaining.
The statement said the women would be admitted “through our normal membership proposal process,” which requires sponsorships by members.
Announcement of the bylaw change came one day after a Los Angeles ordinance went into effect banning membership discrimination by most large private clubs.
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