A fact from Gill and Coote v El Vino Co Ltd appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that until a 1982 legal decision, women were not permitted to stand at the bar at El Vino in London?
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... that between 1945 and a 1982 court case women were not permitted to stand at the bar at El Vino in London? Source: "Today in 1982, El Vino, a traditional Fleet Street bar, lifted its ban on two women from standing with male colleagues at the bar ... The ban on women standing at the bar was thought to date back to the second world war" from: Rodrigues, Jason (15 November 2012). "30 years ago today: El Vino lifted ban on women standing with male colleagues at bar". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2022. and "the rule against women at the bar dates only from 1945" from: "Women Win Right to Stand, Sip at Bar". Edmonton Journal. 10 November 1982. p. 76.
ALT1: ... that until a 1982 legal decision women were not permitted to stand at the bar at El Vino in London? Source: as ALT0
ALT2: ... that a policy preventing women from standing at the bar at London's El Vino was only overturned after the fourth legal action under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975? Source: "Miss Coote and Mrs GIll, whose action, the fourth against El Vino under the act" from Nicholson, David (16 July 1981). "Court blow to wine bar feminists". The Times. No. 60981. p. 5.
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Good to go. ALT1 preferred. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:28, 16 September 2022 (UTC)