Augusta National Stays Mum on When IBM’s Female CEO Can Join
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International Business Machines Corp. will sponsor Augusta National Golf Club’s Masters tournament for the 12th straight year later this week, even as Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty waits for a public invitation to join the formerly all-male organization.
Augusta National has historically invited IBM’s CEOs to join its ranks, though not necessarily when they first take the job. Rometty, who became the company’s first female chief in 2012, found herself at the center of a controversy last year over the club’s exclusion of women. Under pressure to change its rules, the club invited two women to join after the last tournament was held. Rometty, 55, wasn’t among them.