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The Wing is a network of work and community spaces designed for women.
The Wing’s mission is the professional, civic, social, and economic advancement of women through community. We believe that
the act of coming together in furtherance of The Wing’s mission creates new opportunities, ideas and conversations that will
lead to greater mobility and prosperity for womankind.
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The women’s club movement was formed in the 19th and early 20th century by
pioneering women who provided each other with encouraging community at a
time when they needed it most.
There were over 600 such groups in New York City by the 1930’s and over
There were over 600 such groups in New York City by the 1930 s and over
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In 1868, Fanny Fern was turned away from an all-male New York Press Club
dinner honoring Charles Dickens. Fern, a popular American newspaper
columnist, explained that she was invited to “listen to the speeches ‘through the
crack of a door.’
One year later, Fern cofounded America’s first professional women’s club,
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Sorosis.
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By the 1920s, the social club wasn’t just for middle class or wealthy women.
Working women met in groups under names like the Lady Flashers, the Lady
Millionaires, and the Lady Liberties.
In the 1970s, women’s clubs took on issues more pertinent to the times. The
Jane Club of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union maintained a network of
abortion providers, and the Boston Women’s Health Collective published Our
Bodies, Ourselves.