Joanne Payne, founder of Marguerite, a members’ club for women in the arts, tells Ella Wills why she believes all-female spaces are necessary to help push back against gender imbalance.
“In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need all-female spaces of any kind… But all the time that the ‘ideal world’ is still very much just that, I think that we do,” says the founder of the first member's club for women in the arts, Joanna Payne.
Speaking after International Women’s Day, the director of London club Marguerite, 30, has said female-only spaces remain a necessary force in the drive towards a world where "everyone would feel that their voice was heard equally, regardless of their gender, race, or sexual preference"...Keep reading on The Independent
“In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need all-female spaces of any kind… But all the time that the ‘ideal world’ is still very much just that, I think that we do,” says the founder of the first member's club for women in the arts, Joanna Payne.
Speaking after International Women’s Day, the director of London club Marguerite, 30, has said female-only spaces remain a necessary force in the drive towards a world where "everyone would feel that their voice was heard equally, regardless of their gender, race, or sexual preference"...Keep reading on The Independent