Scott Yenor and The Heritage Foundation’s War on Women Is Exactly What MAGA Wants for America
A public record of misogyny, control, and backward power politics reveals how the far right and Project 2025 wants to shrink women’s freedom and silence their voices.
Women hearing Yenor’s words are hearing a man tell them that their ambition is a social disease. They are hearing a man tell them their education is a mistake. They are hearing a man tell them their independence makes the country weaker. They are hearing a man tell them the nation should celebrate male dominance across work, prestige, discovery, and public life.
I wanted to title this post, “Hey Scott Yenor, go fuck yourself,” but I didn’t want to alienate anyone from reading the facts, so I went with my Plan B above. Regardless of what I decided to title this post, the fact of the matter is that you need to know this idiot’s name because his ideas are not floating around on some forgotten message board [make sure to watch the video].
Scott Yenor is a Boise State University political science professor, and as of now, he also serves as director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation. He has also worked through the Claremont orbit on higher education and culture war campaigns.
This is not fringe noise. This is organized power, moving through institutions that shape policy, staffing, and the values now circulating through Trump era politics.
Who is Scott Yenor
Yenor presents himself as a scholar of family life, marriage, constitutional law, and political philosophy. His Boise State profile says he has taught there since 2000. Heritage now identifies him as the director of one of its major centers, and its own page describes his work as centered on family policy and higher education reform. That matters because the Heritage Foundation is one of the most influential engines in the modern conservative movement, and its policy agenda has been tied directly to the broader machinery behind Project 2025 and the Trump administration’s hard right governing vision.
What Yenor believes about women
Let’s strip away the academic packaging and say this plainly. Scott Yenor has argued that young women should be prepared to become mothers instead of being encouraged to delay motherhood for school, work, and independence. He has called colleges and universities “indoctrination camps” and “the citadels of our gynecocracy.” He has said “every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering,” and extended that same idea to medical school, law, and “every trade.” He even said that if every Nobel Prize winner were a man, that would be “kind of a cause for celebration.” Those are not slips. Those are not garbled lines taken out of context. Those are statements of belief.
He has also described independent women as “medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome,” and he tied women’s work outside the home to social decay. His remarks cast career minded women as spiritually empty, politically corrosive, and socially defective. The message lands with brutal clarity. A woman who wants a career, public influence, expertise, autonomy, or leadership is treated in his framework as a problem to be managed, not a full citizen to be respected.
What his words say about women’s rights
When a man says women should not be recruited into engineering, medicine, law, and the trades, he is not talking about personal preference. He is talking about narrowing the future. He is talking about closing doors. He is talking about shrinking the range of lives women are allowed to build.
That is an attack on women’s rights in plain English. It is an attack on equal opportunity. It is an attack on professional dignity. It is an attack on the right of women to decide for themselves what kind of life they want, what kind of work they want, what kind of family they want, and whether motherhood fits into that life at all. A woman does not need permission from Scott Yenor, the Heritage Foundation, Trump world, or the New Right to become a surgeon, a welder, a judge, an engineer, a professor, a senator, or a child free adult who owes no one an apology for living on her own terms.
What makes his rhetoric so offensive
Women hearing and reading Yenor’s words are not reacting to some abstract policy memo. They are hearing a man tell them that their ambition is a social disease. They are hearing a man tell them their education is a mistake. They are hearing a man tell them their independence makes the country weaker. They are hearing a man tell them the nation should celebrate male dominance across work, prestige, discovery, and public life.
Read that again and let it sink in. He is not asking women to choose family life for themselves. He is telling the country to stop recruiting women into major professions. He is not praising mothers in a way that lifts women up. He is building a hierarchy that pushes women down. He is not calling for support. He is calling for exclusion.
This is why so many women feel insulted, enraged, and deeply unsettled by what he says. The offense does not come from tone alone. The offense comes from the worldview underneath the tone. That worldview says a woman’s worth flows through obedience to a narrow social role. That worldview says public achievement belongs first to men. That worldview says women who step outside the lane assigned to them deserve ridicule.
What this means politically in 2026
In March 2026, with Donald Trump back in office and the Heritage network deeply relevant to the governing conversation, Yenor’s ideas deserve to be taken as part of a larger campaign over who gets power in America. Heritage now employs him in a senior role. He has also been welcomed into DeSantis aligned higher education politics, including his 2025 appointment to the University of West Florida board, where he later resigned amid intense backlash. None of this looks accidental. These are channels of influence. These are routes into state power, culture war policy, and the remaking of public institutions.
His own public work also shows that his hostility to modern feminism is not isolated to one speech. Heritage published his writing tying feminism to the rise of transgender politics and sexual revolution themes, and Heritage’s page celebrating his hire includes praise for his work as a critic of feminism and higher education reform. Put all of that together and the picture is easy to see. This is a sustained ideological project aimed at pulling women back from equality in public life and restoring male centered authority as a social norm.
Why this agenda feels so old, so small, and so frightened
Ideas like Yenor’s do not come from confidence. They come from fear. They come from a deep discomfort with women who think for themselves, earn their own money, lead teams, speak in public, shape culture, vote their interests, and refuse to play grateful subordinate. They come from men who look at women’s freedom and see a threat instead of a fact of modern citizenship.
That is why this agenda feels so icky to so many people. It has the stale smell of control. It treats half the country as a labor pool for reproduction, caretaking, and silence. It turns women’s minds into a political problem. It turns women’s success into male grievance. It turns freedom into offense.
What everyday American voters should take from this
You do not need a graduate seminar to understand what is happening here. An insecure and pathetic little man with institutional reach, together with organizations that support this message, said women should not be recruited into engineering, medicine, law, and the trades. He mocked independent women. He framed female autonomy as national decline. He said male domination across public life would be cause for celebration. Those are the facts. The moral meaning is plain.
Women built this country. Women defend this country. Women heal this country. Women teach, invent, litigate, govern, negotiate, diagnose, code, design, farm, command, research, and create. Every girl in America deserves to hear one clean sentence in response to Scott Yenor. Your future belongs to you.
This is the fight beneath the headlines. It is about whether American women remain full participants in public life, or whether men like Yenor get to drag the country backward through politics, policy shops, university boards, and movement institutions. Every voter should see this clearly. Every woman should call it what it is. Every decent man should reject it without hesitation.
Scott Yenor has told you exactly how he sees women. Believe him. Then speak up, share this, and vote like your daughters and granddaughters are watching.
Mitch Jackson, Esq.
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What in the world has happened to our society that produces such men. They continue to come out of the woodwork. Shameful. Thanks Mitch for sharing. Knowledge is power when we meet our enemies.
Thank you for the head's-up, Mitch. Even if I somehow felt the least bit sympathetic with this detestable man's view, the pragmatist in me would think: ¿how is the country supposed to be competitive in the hurly burley world of international trade?