Gelman has not revealed how many people have applied for membership to the DC location, but NBC4 reported that, within 24 hours of the Wing announcing its expansion to D.C. Why are you allowing my tax dollars to be used by to investigate a cherished space for women called when we can barely obtain safety for our bodies, let alone our working environments?- Amber Tamblyn March 28, 2018 Reactions to the investigation have varied, and support has congealed around the hashtag #IStandWithTheWing. UPDATE: Gelman reached out to Curbed DC with this statement in response to the investigation: “Because of the history of women in this country-and even more so in this time we live in-it is important to protect and foster the work of The Wing and similar spaces that give women a positive and safe space to thrive.” The law recognizes this too and is consistent with The Wing’s values and mission.” In an interview with NBC4, Gelman responded to the investigation, saying, “Human rights include empowering women not taking more away from them. While DC’s Office of Human Rights has the potential to launch its own investigation into The Wing, city officials told WAMU that they’re not planning to. In New York, the club has become the subject of an investigation by the New York City Commission on Human Rights for possible discrimination violations. (For access to all current and future Wing locations, the monthly cost is $250, and the annual cost is $2,700.)īeyond the high price of membership dues, The Wing has caught attention for its woman-only membership policy. location, members pay $215 monthly or $2,350 annually. Washingtonian published an inside tour alongside its own skepticism, particularly around the cost of membership. Washington City Paper criticized The Wing’s location for being difficult to access via public transit and listed seven other, more affordable coworking spaces and workshops (many of which are woman-focused), such as The Lemon Collective and BUREAU. The Washington Post wrote, “Why not fight the patriarchy while testing complimentary Chanel serums in a honey-hued beauty room?” Further descriptions included it being “hopelessly Manhattan” and “meant to be a home away from home-just way nicer than any home most of you will ever own.” Other local media have been mixed in their responses to the new space. To be able to create a sanctuary and a gathering place for women, not only in politics but in all sorts of professions and industries in the District, was very appealing,” she said in an interview with NBC4. “This is the center of power in the country and where there are so many women on the frontlines of fighting for equality and representation. The Wing CEO Audrey Gelman said that choosing D.C. To top it all off, New York’s Strand bookstore has created a “Lady Library” filled only with books by female-identifying authors and organized by color. There is also a “beauty room” with free Chanel products, an art gallery with female artists, a lactation room, and The Perch Cafe, which offers coffee, cocktails, and snacks from local women-owned or co-owned businesses. Walking through The Wing’s candle-scented spaces, women are everywhere, from custom wallpaper in the entryway-of illustrated busts of Mary McLeod Bethune, Patsy Mink, and the like-to the phone booths personalized with names of DC trailblazers like Shirley Chisholm, Anita Hill, and Bella Abzug. The new DC location at 1066 Thomas Jefferson Street NW, directly adjacent to the C&O Canal, is packed with current design trends: millennial pink, seafoam green, stylish floral arrangements, fringe, and midcentury modern–esque furnishings. “Hybrid social clubs and coworking spaces” are proliferating across the country, Curbed’s Diana Budds writes, and “new coworking spaces are becoming more like the elite social clubs of the past.” Inspired by women’s social clubs of the 1920s, The Wing was created to serve women its first location opened in the Flatiron District of Manhattan in October 2016. A plaque near the entrance offers details about her architecture career with a quote of hers in big letters that read, “I’m an Architect with a capital A, being a woman has nothing to do with it.” The Wing’s first location outside of New York, the 10,000-square-foot space takes up a rowhouse that once housed the city’s first all-female architecture firm, led by Chloethiel Woodard Smith. This Thursday, a brand new coworking space opened in Georgetown-and it’s just for women.
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