Hilarious: UK Feminist Group Hires a Man as Their New Chairman

Caleb Tolin | August 6, 2018
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AllBright is a “network for working women in the United Kingdom” and was named after the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for her quote “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”

Currently, the organization is ran by former Love Home Swap CEO Debbie Wosskow and former Hearst Magazines U.K. CEO Anna Jones. Interestingly enough, this women-only group recently decided to hire a man, Allan Leighton, to serve as its new leader.

They are also running a #SisterhoodWorks campaign because nothing says sisterhood like letting a man lead all the women!

Wosskow really doesn’t want men to feel out of place. She was so welcoming in a interview with The Londonist where she said she even wanted men to feel welcomed in the building.

"We think it’s really important that men are allowed in the building. We have men in our company and we have male investors, so it wouldn’t make sense to not let men in," she told the Londonist.

One would think that a women’s empowerment group would want a woman leading them on the battlefield. Some people, naturally, are just as skeptical. One woman, comedian Kate Smurthwaite, feels just that way.

"Of course we need men on board," she told the BBC."How can we get anywhere until men are willing to share their power? What I'm not entirely convinced about is having men in charge.

AllBright also had some other prominent people defending them including Allyson Zimmermann, executive director for Europe at Catalyst which is a nonprofit advocating for women in the workplace.

“Now, more than ever, women and men need to come together to share their perspectives, rather than retreating solely into gender groups,” she told NBC News.

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