Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Ladies Lounge, at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, Australia, was created five years ago by artist Kirsha Kaechele, the wife of the museum’s founder and owner David Walsh. A tribunal in Tasmania’s capital city Hobart subsequently ruled that …
Tasmania's Supreme Court has quashed a tribunal decision that would have forced a museum to allow men to enter its women-only "Ladies' Lounge". Judge finds 'societal gender bias still exists' The case itself came down to an interpretation of one section in Tasmania's Anti-Discrimination Act: "A person may discriminate against another person in any program, plan or arrangement designed to …
