Any sexism?

cheerios89
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:57:08 +0000

Hi, I’m very interested in Notre Dame… but I have a nagging concern. My mom attended, and overall she loved the experience, but I know there were certain sexist things that annoyed her about the university - for example, all the women were required to do their own laundry while all the men just had a laundry service. Of course, I know that today that has changed (after all, it’s been years since my mom attended). But ND had this laundry problem at a time when many other universities had moved beyond those basic levels of sexism. Is there anything at ND that’s still sexist?

The Catholic church itself is undoubtedly sexist, because only men can be priests. And if Notre Dame will only hire priests to be president of the university, then there will never be any chance for a woman to take charge of ND. Also, I recently saw some article online about an event called “Football 101,” where basically they try to give the women training in the basics of football. I personally think that is kind of condescending, because I have been attending games my whole life and I certainly don’t need a tutorial to explain the game to me!

I really WANT to like Notre Dame, because it seems like an awesome place overall. Can someone try to confirm or deny these doubts I have?