Corporate executives connected with Augusta National Golf Club ducked the issue of its all-male membership throughout the four-day Masters Tournament that concluded yesterday.
Their silence persisted even after President Barack Obama's spokesman and Mitt Romney, the potential Republican Party challenger, said April 5 that the near 80-year-old club should admit female members. In addition, social media sites including Twitter.com have been filled with comments calling for an end to gender discrimination at the club.
The issue came to the fore because one of the tournament's three sponsors, International Business Machines Corp., is now headed by Virginia “Ginni” Rometty, the company's first female chief executive officer. IBM's CEO traditionally dons the club's signature green member blazer at the tournament, as do the CEOs of co-sponsors Exxon Mobil Corp. and AT&T Inc.
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