There could be some other issues at work here. I don’t want to dig too deep into it. But I know some Catholics-—underscore the word some-—who have some issues with women. They recoil at the thought of women being near the altar in any way or in any capacity, including as altar girls, Eucharistic Ministers, lectors. I don’t want to be accused of speculation. I’m from the Sgt. Joe Friday school: Just the facts please. But it is a well known fact that many early Church leaders were contemptuous of women, thought they tempted men in the wrong direction, and some even had issues with physical intimacy between a husband and a wife...which may in part explain why this entire yarn was fabricated that Mary and Joseph never consummated their marriage which is of course totally absurd.
I will say that there are certain hyperlegalistic branches of Protestantism that will do the same thing. Sadly some of them self-identify as being of the Reformed branch.