Sunday, April 28, 2019

Judges Rule Sex-Segregated Pool Schedule Unlawful at Condo in Lakewood, NJ

DIN QUESTION:
The article below states that MEN had 16.5 hours use of the pool and WOMEN had 3.5 hours.....
Let's forget the women for just a minute.....Why do men need 16.5 hours? Isn't this in Fakewood? Aren't they supposed to be learning? What is going on? 
What's going on is, that the women are working all day and the men are home all day ... that's what's going on .....
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit found on Monday that a condominium’s sex-segregated pool time policy in the heavily dominated New Jersey neighborhood of Lakewood discriminated against women.
The court ruled for a group of owners who sued after each were fined $50 by their condominium association for violating the rules of A Country Place Condominium Association about the pool that includes separate swimming times for men and women in accordance with strict modesty standards upheld by Orthodox Jews, who consist of two-thirds of the association’s residents during of the 2016 lawsuit.
The judges said the policy violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination and the federal Fair Housing Act, which “makes it an unlawful housing practice to “discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions or privileges of sale or rental of a dwelling, or in the provision of services or facilities therewith, because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status or national origin.”


The judges said “inequitable features” in the swimming schedule was unlawful in that on weeknights, women were allotted 3.5 hours of pool time after 5 p.m., while the men had 16.5 hours. Only 25 hours were allocated for people of all sexes.
Judge Thomas Ambro ruled that “women with regular-hour jobs thus have little access to the pool during the work week, and the schedule appears to reflect particular assumptions about the roles of men and women.”
While they stopped short of ruling that any gender-segregated pool is unlawful, one of the judges expressed “vehement disapproval of segregation” over the “separate, but equal” policies.
The American Civil Liberties Union applauded the decision.

“Today’s ruling is a victory for gender equality,” said Sandra Park, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s Women’s Right Project, in a statement.

4 comments:

Hold it right there said...

I think you are making a big mistake here DIN.

It appears to be a retirement community, for senior citizens, not housing for yungeleit.

See

https://www.55plusinocean.com/a-country-place/

Anonymous said...

16.5 hours AFTER 5 pm.
the women had just as much hours as the men but their hours were mostly before 5 pm. And this is in a retirement community where a) most residents are moving in from out of lakewood b) many are retired and c)after 5 works better for many men because many still do work.
Why must you always bash before you even know what you're talking about.

Dusiznies said...

Anonymous Hold it right there said...
So........ so the alteh women kockers get 3.5 hours and the alteh kockers men get 16.5?

Alter Lakewooder said...

ok guys....
I don't know if DIN really knew this, but he is spot on!
I have an uncle and an aunt in this complex and I know most if not all of the people in this complex...
They go to Florida and even have homes there in the retirement communities ...
and guess what?
They all have no problems swimming or being in the pool with their wives ....there are no separate times over there
they swim mixed ... there I said it ... yes they guys with the beards ... yes them ...
But in Lakewood it doesn't "past" ........
Bunch of hypocrites...