[riskneutral]

> For admission to Chief, a women’s leadership network, members pay up to $7,900. That gets them executive coaching, big-name speaker sessions, a Rolodex of female executives and, for an extra cost, access to five sleek clubhouses. Chief is essentially an “old boys’ club” — for the ladies. The venture capital-backed company has grown to over 20,000 members and over $1 billion in value since it started in 2019.

So ... can we have the "old boys' clubs" back now, for the other half of the species? Somehow I don't think so.

[paxys]

If you truly think these "old boys' clubs" went anywhere you are simply not connected enough to be part of them.

[scarmig]

But I thought every man is part of the patriarchy and is given a free all-access pass to the old boys' club at birth.

[theossuary]

Patriarchy and old boys clubs are related but separate things. One hint they aren't the same is they are different words with different definitions.

[riskneutral]

I know that those networks still exist, but literal "boys only" country clubs are no longer socially acceptable as far as I know.