Corporate executives connected with Augusta National Golf Clubducked the issue of its all-male membership throughout the four-dayMasters Tournament that concluded yesterday.
Their silence persisted even after President Barack Obama'sspokesman and Mitt Romney, the potential Republican Partychallenger, said April 5 that the near 80-year-old club shouldadmit female members. In addition, social media sites includingTwitter.com have been filled with comments calling for an end togender discrimination at the club.
The issue came to the fore because one of the tournament's threesponsors, International Business Machines Corp., is now headed byVirginia “Ginni” Rometty, the company's first female chiefexecutive officer. IBM's CEO traditionally dons the club'ssignature green member blazer at the tournament, as do the CEOs ofco-sponsors Exxon Mobil Corp. and AT&T Inc.
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