New York City Rights Panel Examines The Wing Women’s Club

By John Herzfeld

The New York City Human Rights Commission faces a social media backlash after it launched a sex discrimination investigation into the women-only networking club The Wing.

Supporters of the organization, which has 1,500 members in New York and Washington, D.C., launched a Twitter hashtag #IStandWithTheWing following a March 26 article about the commission’s inquiry in the online women’s issues blog Jezebel.

The Wing is a women-only private social club that offers co-working office space.

“All that’s happened is that the commission and The Wing have agreed to sit down and have a conversation,” the organization’s attorney, Karen ...