Unfortunately, little attention has been paid to a significant and substantive development in Jamaica: another crashing sound from the broken glass ceiling at Sabina Park.

As Tony Becca wrote several weeks ago, the Kingston Cricket Club (KCC), after nearly a century-and-a-half of existence, voted by the slimmest of margins to accept female members. It is hard to imagine that in a country like Jamaica, it took the KCC so long. For this discrimination against women defied logic, if not the Constitution of Jamaica.

But it is the issue of discrimination, and particularly that based on ethnicity and gender, that has particularly attended the KCC and has exercised us much. Happily, the cricket club long ditched the former, even as it clung to the latter.

A few of the 'boys', however, would wish to cling to the old discredited order, based, perhaps, on their chauvinistic assumption that physical strength is the divining characteristic of human endeavour.

Opt for intellect

Should there ever be a need for choice, however, we would opt for intellect. On this score, in modern Jamaica, women tend to outperform men: 70 per cent of the enrolment in tertiary institutions is female.

Our preferred perspective is of equality, a place at which the Kingston Cricket Club is beginning to arrive, the twisted countenances of some of its male members notwithstanding.

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