Women-friendly campuses

jessiehl
Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:49:57 +0000

One problem that my family brought up when I (as the daughter) was choosing housing for MIT next year was single sex housing.



Oh jeez. You have that type of parent. So where are you temped?

I am surprised that people have not said more about sexism or lack thereof on campus. If I were a parent, I’d encourage my daughter to ask female students how they are treated by classmates, living group-mates, and professors. If the daughter was into sports, I’d suggest that she ask about the attention and resources devoted to women’s sports - whether they were respected or given the men’s teams’ scraps.