alt Hacker News> About 20 years ago the Basque government began giving txoko societies money – but only if they allowed women. They are now allowed. They just aren’t allowed to cook.
Every society (another name given to txokos) has its own rules which are agreed upon by their members. There might be a vanishingly small number of societies where women are still not allowed to cook, but this an extremely rare exception rather than a widespread fact.
> sang a traditional Basque song called Hegoak (The Wings)
Note the name of the poem and later popular song is "Txoria txori"[1] (the bird is bird), which was written by Joxan Artze. The most well-known sung version is by Mikel Laboa[2].