Women-Only Exhibit Legalized

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Ladies Lounge: Judge finds Mona's women-only art exhibit is legal

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The Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art ( Mona ) in Hobart had sought to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors from entering.

It was forced to shut in May when one affected patron sued the gallery for gender discrimination and won.

On Friday , Tasmanian Supreme Court Justice Shane Marshall found that men could be lawfully excluded from the Ladies Lounge because it had been designed to give women a “positive advantage” in the face of the “societal disadvantage they experience” The law in Tasmania allows for discrimination if it promotes “equal opportunity” for a marginalised group.

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