Women’s group sets up ‘Hall of Hypocrisy’ on Web
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The group urges the female members at Augusta National has its battle into cyberspace Tuesday with a website, schmäht capital companies, which include the Director General of the golf club. ”We believe it is important for women to know that some of the largest companies in America get double standard when it comes to sex discrimination,’’said Martha Burk, head of National Council of Women’s Organizations. The website - www.augustadiscriminates.org - was officially launched online Tuesday night in the delivery of Burk’s HBO’s”Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.” At first, issued on Hall of Hypocrisy”,” appears logos of the company with links to Augusta. Each company link shows a photograph of the president or manager of the company instructed to diversity, if it wishes, and the products and services offered. A header announced that the company supports discrimination. ”The company is headed by a man who shows his contempt for women every day, it has always regarded as a member of the Augusta National Golf Club,’’says each entry. Augusta National spokesman Glenn Greenspan said, the site is easy nicht”Nachrichten”because it is the work of a group of Washington. It’s”101 political activism,”he said. Some of the companies on the Web site, including the Bank of America, General Electric and United States Steel Corp., rejected the criticisms made of them. “Bank of America” is not compatible with the Augusta National Golf Club. (It) is a recognized leader in the field of Corporate Workforce diversity and social equality in general and to the advancement of women in the workforce and, above all, “the bank, the Atlanta Journal - Constitution, in a statement, the spokesman Scott Scredon. At least one company Burk asked to remove its logo on the website. Franklin Templeton Investments said a spokesman for the AJC is it in a letter, he asks. Burk, she said, the spotlight at the question, but it is, according to the points of the page. It is not only the website of the controversy. A North Carolina man two weeks ago www.golfersforarealcause.org started with two objectives - of the money for research on breast cancer, and the attention of Burk. In addition, a man in Florida www.theburkstopshere.com constructed as a collection of Web sites to protest Burk and their efforts to Augusta National to admit a woman member. Burk, he said, five people for several days at a wavelength of information on the different businesses, including the diversity of their positions and contact information. ”I hope that consumers know that these people, how they double standards, and I hope that to make informed choices”, she said. The date”is not the result of chance. We are in the middle of the holiday season buying. The strength of the market is strong, and for consumers to make decisions.” The controversy over men that membership of the house of the master, which has already club chairman Hootie Johnson’s Drop television sponsors from the next year’s tournament. Former CBS Committee Thomas Wyman resigned as a member of the club, two weeks ago, when Treasury Secretary John Snow, the candidate has resigned from Augusta, it would not be a problem, while his confirmation hearings. Otherwise, the debate is at a stalemate. Johnson said in an interview last month that there was no chance Augusta National, a woman would be invited to participate before the Masters in April, and I saw that he had nothing wrong with a single organization of gender equality. Demonstrations at the gates of Augusta Masters apparent in the course of fate, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson of PUSH / Rainbow Coalition offered to the head. Burk said the main objective of his group on the web page is put under pressure by the Presidents. They should uncomfortable”,”, she said. ”They are not in the action of the defence of discrimination based on sex for a few boys at Augusta. You are in action from the sale of goods and services. I hope that its board of directors a look at what people are doing in their own image. ”It is quite Corporate scandals in the financial sector,’’said Burk. You do not need de’’scandale social, and that is exactly what it is.” Burk was also supported by Jane Smith, chief executive of Business and Professional Women / USA. ”… Presidents, who belong to Augusta National Golf Club can also be lax in the business support policy to pay women and the promotion of women equitably shared equally with men,’’said Smith, a member NCWO. Viacom, the parent company of CBS, was also on the main page. Burk requests CBS subscription is discrimination to approval by the dissemination of Masters. The second objective is to Web PGA Tour. Burk, “said Tour, which is not a policy of discrimination against, golf courses, is a double fault by the official recognition of the Masters Tournament. It provides, for its official sponsors on their list and present the tour’s Board of Directors. |