Warren Buffett, a member of Augusta National Golf Club, said he would allow women to join if he were in charge.

“I’m not telling the group at Augusta what to do, but if I were running the club I’d have plenty of women,” Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said in an interview with Bloomberg Television following his company’s annual meeting.

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