If it is not yet clear by now, PEO is run as an Old Boys Club. A private club. Invitations only if you behave.
When I first joined PEO, all I saw were old white men. Since then, there has been considerable pressure for PEO to change; to allow women, immigrants and other groups in. If you look now, yes, PEO does look a little different in photographs; but look a little closer. You will only be invited in if you "think" like them. If you don't, you are quickly shut out.
I think that John Dewey said it best in 1927 when he proclaimed in The Public and Its Problems that
The cure for all the ailments of democracy is more democracy.
PEO could certainly use a healthy dose of this medicine.
