TRENTON – Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) has reached a settlement resolving DCR’s complaint against the Pine Valley Golf Club (Club), located in Camden County, over allegations that the historically male-dominated Club has engaged in a pattern of unlawful gender-based discrimination.
Under the settlement announced today, the Club has agreed to end discriminatory employment practices, end discriminatory housing practices, and educate its employees about the requirements of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD). During the course of DCR’s investigation, the Club also lifted its policy restricting Club membership to men only and admitted its first women members.
DCR’s administrative complaint against the Club, which was filed in April 2022, alleged that the Club violated the LAD by banning women from becoming members and by otherwise restricting their ability to golf and access Club facilities–policies that the Club relaxed only after DCR commenced its investigation of the Club. The complaint further alleged that the Club had adopted employment policies that discriminated on the basis of gender and used discriminatory restrictive covenants that prevented women from owning houses on the Club’s land unless they co-owned a house with a man.
“The Division on Civil Rights continues to work tirelessly to end the abhorrent legacies of exclusion and misogyny,” said Attorney General Platkin. “...
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