{"id":4553,"date":"2024-03-19T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/top-civil-servant-asked-why-he-is-member-of-all-male-club\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T22:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:00:47","slug":"top-civil-servant-asked-why-he-is-member-of-all-male-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/top-civil-servant-asked-why-he-is-member-of-all-male-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Top civil servant asked why he is member of all-male club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/106D6\/production\/_132968276_p0hkmph3.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Top civil servant asked why he is member of all-male club\" title=\"Top civil servant asked why he is member of all-male club\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The head of the Civil Service has been asked how he squares his plans for &#8220;inclusiveness&#8221; with being a member of the all-male Garrick Club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Appearing before a select committee, Simon Case told Labour MP Liam Byrne he had joined the club so he could help reform it from within.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That prompted laughter and questions from other members, with Tory MP Sir Robert Buckland revealing that he too was a member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Guardian has revealed a list of judges, lawyers, members of the House of Lords and MPs, plus academics, actors, rock stars and senior journalists who are members of the club that does not allow women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Civil Service has been asked how he squares his plans for &#8220;inclusiveness&#8221; with being a member of the all-male Garrick Club. Appearing before a select committee, Simon Case told Labour MP Liam Byrne he had joined the club so he could help reform it from within. That prompted laughter and questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/106D6\/production\/_132968276_p0hkmph3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[7802,3332,7799,1096,7801,7800,1846],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}