Women to lead new Council for Freemasonry in ‘historic move’


Women to lead new Council for Freemasonry in ‘historic move’

(by editorial board, The Telegraph, 29 June 2024)

 

The Freemasons have appointed two women to head a newly launched leadership council in a move designed to counter accusations of misogyny. England’s Freemasons say the appointment is ”an unprecedented and historic move” which it is hoped will dismiss the mistaken belief that the organisation is exclusively male.

It comes after Freemasons of both sexes rejected suggestions they follow the recent moves by London’s Garrick Club by forcing the men’s masonic lodges to accept women members and vice versa. The Garrick’s all-male membership recently voted to admit women for the first time in its 190-year history.

England’s largest masonic lodges have made it clear that…

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Women to lead new Council for Freemasonry in ‘historic move’

 

Women to lead new Council for Freemasonry in ‘historic move’
 

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