His anti-feminist views, including referring to career-oriented women as "medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome", led to a Title IX investigation and his being charged with civil rights violations by Boise State.
[3] In his academic writings, Yenor has addressed the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume, the Reconstruction era, presidential power, and "the principles of family regime for the late modern world".
[4] Yenor is a member of the Society for American Civic Renewal, a secretive, men-only Christian nationalist organization.
[3] In a speech at the 2021 National Conservatism Conference, Yenor declared: "If we want a great nation, we should be preparing young women to become mothers ... Every effort must be made not to recruit women into" medicine, law, engineering and "every trade", instead "recruit and demand more of men" in these occupations; Yenor went on: "If every Nobel Prize winner is a man, that’s not a failure.
A video of his speech went viral,[8] setting off a firestorm calling for his sanction, sacking, and an investigation of his conduct in the classroom.
[6] In 2021 he was selected by Idaho's then-Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin to serve on a task force aimed at finding evidence of indoctrination in primary, secondary, and higher education.
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