Does Heritage Support Discrimination Against Women?

"The Heritage Foundation has had a tough month. President Kevin Roberts's decision to vigorously defend Tucker Carlson's platforming of the noted anti-Semite and white nationalist Nick Fuentes has pushed the conservative think tank into a tailspin. One board member, the Princeton professor Robert George, resigned; a number of staff departed; and a task force to combat anti-Semitism severed its ties."

"Yet Heritage's problems are hardly limited to its handling of Fuentes. The think tank's recent decision to hire Scott Yenor, a family-policy scholar, to lead the Foundation's B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies poses serious questions about the institution's beliefs concerning the equality of women in the workplace and perhaps even as citizens. Yenor's views are, to say the least, controversial."

"In a 2021 speech at the National Conservatism Conference, he labeled professional women "medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome." He has echoed the online right's use of the term AWFLs (for "affluent white female liberals") in his writing, and had to step down from an appointment as the chair of the University of West Florida's board of trustees when it became clear that the Republican-controlled state Senate would not confirm him."

Heritage Foundation is facing a reputational and institutional crisis after President Kevin Roberts defended Tucker Carlson's platforming of Nick Fuentes, prompting a board resignation, staff departures, and a task force severing ties. The think tank's hiring of Scott Yenor to lead the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies raises serious questions about the institution's stance on women's equality in the workplace and potentially as citizens. Yenor labeled professional women "medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome," echoed the AWFLs term, and stepped down from a university appointment when a Republican-controlled Senate failed to confirm him. Yenor argues that conservative men should prefer women who do not work full-time and praises "the heroic feminine."

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