Journalist Helen Andrews gave a bracing talk at the National Conservatism conference in Washington in September 2025 that is attracting huge international attention.
Entitled The Great Feminization, Andrews’ talk makes the claim that the changed behavior in recent years of major institutions and professions like universities, corporations and the law, and especially the rise of woke culture, can be attributed to one main factor. That factor is the increasing representation of women in their ranks. More women in these organizations and professions means, in Andrews’ view, more feminine patterns of behavior as values traditionally associated with women come to dominate.
While recognizing the changed behavior Andrews properly decries, I part company with her on the cause of that behavior. The issue is not “too many women”. That is just stereotyping and crude biological determinism. Women (and men for that matter) are only partly bearers of a set of attitudes and values innate to their sex that are universal, permanent, and immutable.
I laid out my case in an article published in December 2025 by the University of Texas at Austin in their magazine, Civic Outlook. Check it out here.
