As improbable as it may sound, it appears that until very recently women were not allowed to join the Westminster Kennel Club, or serve on its board.
That has now changed, but there does not appear to be any record of when that change was made. It was clearly after 2015.
The 150th anniversary of the Westminster Dog show is coming up in 2026.
It would be nice to see Westminster Kennel Club own its past misogyny, by at least memorializing the date at which they thought women might be allowed to be members.
And speaking of gender exclusions, it would be interesting to know if defacto or dejure racial exclusions ever existed, and when that fence first fell.
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