This is a neat idea, but misapplied.
You have 100% choice over who you want to let into your home.
The law could apply to registered Bed and Breakfast businesses, and perhaps those where people are renting a professionally managed full home or flat - but not for people inviting others into their homes, and renting just a room.
If a woman does not want to rent a room to the 6 foot 4 burly biker with tattoos it's 100% her prerogative.
In fact, if a woman doesn't want to rent a room to men at all, that's perfectly fine as well.
These are rooms in people's living spaces, which to me is distinct from regular business transactions.
The initial premise of AirBnB was something absolutely more intimate than a 'business' and they consistently have touted it as such.
I think that there's a distinction between what AirBnB has promoted - and a regular Bed and Breakfast, and even distinct from Uber/Cab, which is something much more transactional.
You have 100% choice over who you want to let into your home.
The law could apply to registered Bed and Breakfast businesses, and perhaps those where people are renting a professionally managed full home or flat - but not for people inviting others into their homes, and renting just a room.
If a woman does not want to rent a room to the 6 foot 4 burly biker with tattoos it's 100% her prerogative.
In fact, if a woman doesn't want to rent a room to men at all, that's perfectly fine as well.
These are rooms in people's living spaces, which to me is distinct from regular business transactions.
The initial premise of AirBnB was something absolutely more intimate than a 'business' and they consistently have touted it as such.
I think that there's a distinction between what AirBnB has promoted - and a regular Bed and Breakfast, and even distinct from Uber/Cab, which is something much more transactional.