Men Cry Discrimination in Legal Attack on Women’s Organizations
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The Supreme Court of California.
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Alfred Rava, a San Diego lawyer, counts himself as a fierce warrior in the fight against gender discrimination, but not in the way most people think. His targets have been women’s organizations and women-only events which, he says, are illegally biased against men.
Over the last dozen years, Rava, 62, has gone after the Oakland A’s for giving away swag to women in honor of Mother’s Day, forced a San Diego fire agency to cancel a “girl’s empowerment camp” and won a landmark ruling from the California Supreme Court challenging a supper club’s higher admission fees for male patrons. He says he’s “batting a thousand.”