Women protest at El Vino serving policy
Some of the group of fifty women who demanded a drink at El Vino's wine bar in Fleet Street, London, thus protesting against the bar's policy of only serving men at the bar. The bar's justification for their policy was that as the bar frequently became very crowded, it was more chivalrous to exclude women from taking part in the struggle to get served. Instead they were expected to sit in a back room and wait to be served. Many of the women protesters, who formed the Women Against Chivalry Movement especially for the occasion, dressed in traditionally male attire of suit, collar and tie, but this was not enough to get service at the bar. It was over four years later, in November 1982, that Appeal Court Judges ruled in favour of women's right to drink at the bar
