The Nation - News from June 27, 1988
The national YWCA, facing a court battle over a Washington state chapter’s hiring of a man as a leader, has voted at its national convention in Chicago to retain the all-female status it has held for 130 years, its national president said. The organization’s board of directors postponed a vote on whether to expel the Tacoma, Wash., chapter for hiring a man as executive director, said President Glendora McIlwain Putnam. The chapter has sued to remain a part of the national organization.
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