Jason Lau claimed he was discriminated against because of his gender and was unable to fully experience Mona after paying his $35 entrance fee last year.
The Museum of Old and New Art has been ordered to allow men into its Ladies Lounge after a man successfully claimed its women-only policy was discriminatory.
The complainant visited Mona last year, only to find that he was denied entry into the Ladies Lounge.he was discriminated against because of his gender and was unable to fully experience Mona after paying his $35 museum entrance fee in April last year., the wife of Mona founder David Walsh, and opened in 2020.
During the case, Mona’s counsel Catherine Scott conceded that the Ladies Lounge was discriminatory – the whole point of the work was to provide equal opportunity for a disadvantaged group, that is, women, who had been historically excluded from many spaces, she said.Scott argued that by being denied access to the Ladies Lounge, men were indeed experiencing the work and its intent – they were not missing out.
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