I’m not really disagreeing with your main points, but ZeroCool gave the correct answer to the BCsven’s question as to how they came to exist.
As Wikipedia put it:
“Women were generally not permitted to join chess clubs until the early 1900s. Once allowed in, they were largely limited to competing against other women.”
That weasel-wording ought to be:
“Chess clubs were run and funded by men, who did not permit women to join until the early 1900s. Once the men allowed women in the club, they didn’t allow them to play against men, only among themselves.”
Women couldn’t own property and any money they had belonged to their husband or father so they had to accept these rules.
I’m not really disagreeing with your main points, but ZeroCool gave the correct answer to the BCsven’s question as to how they came to exist.
As Wikipedia put it:
“Women were generally not permitted to join chess clubs until the early 1900s. Once allowed in, they were largely limited to competing against other women.”
That weasel-wording ought to be:
“Chess clubs were run and funded by men, who did not permit women to join until the early 1900s. Once the men allowed women in the club, they didn’t allow them to play against men, only among themselves.”
Women couldn’t own property and any money they had belonged to their husband or father so they had to accept these rules.