Suzanne Venker
Author and Relationship Coach
One of America’s most recognizable board games, Monopoly, has created a new version celebrating girl power. In Ms. Monopoly, female players start with $1,900, compared to $1500 for each male player. And when girls pass ‘Go,’ they don’t get the standard $200. They get $240. So, just to get this straight: In Hasbro’s lame attempt to …
This article was originally published at Washington Examiner. Millions of single women in America today cannot for the life of them find a “suitable” husband. That’s according to a new study from researchers at Cornell University, who examined data on actual recent marriages and found women’s ideal husband has an average income about 58% higher than the actual unmarried …
In my recent post, entitled “6 Ways Men Can Become Emasculation-Proof,” one of my suggestions to men was to not be overly accommodating toward their wives and girlfriends. That may sound odd or even mean, but I’m not saying men shouldn’t be kind or shouldn’t pull their weight on the home front. What I am …
Not long ago I received an email from a man with a simple question: Is there a way for a guy to be “emasculation-proof”? How can men (even young men) become secure in their identity so as not to become emasculated in their relationships? So we’re clear, to be emasculated means to be made weak …
So, BIG news. And I’m so excited to finally be able to share it. As of July 13, I will be on the radio. The Suzanne Venker Show will air every Saturday at noon and will also be available as a podcast, so anyone can listen from anywhere in the world at anytime. We will …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. With Father’s Day upon us, the time has come to address as a nation what Heather Mac Donald noted earlier this year is “the greatest social catastrophe of our time”: fatherlessness. Fatherlessness is the No. 1 cause of nearly all social ills we face. We can’t afford to …
Last week, after an especially long day and an “epic” tantrum from her 3-year-old, Sarah Buckley Friedberg, a Massachusetts mother of three, posted on Facebook a mock ‘to-do list‘ that society expects of mothers today. The ending was inspired: “I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to lean OUT. Thanks for coming to my …
This article was originally published at Washington Examiner. A new finding at Pew Research Center claims that gender equality—worldwide, although a distinction must be made between its goals in the West and its goals in undeveloped nations—has risen exponentially at the same time family ties have weakened considerably. And here’s the frustrating part: While “roughly half or more” …
The following post is the third in a series of posts on modern American dating and young people’s inability to form lasting attachments that potentially lead to marriage. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I addressed the modern generation’s inability to find and sustain successful long-term relationships—today, over half of 18-34 year …
The following post is the second in a series of posts on modern American dating and young people’s inability to form lasting attachments that potentially lead to marriage. In Part 1 of this three-part series, I wrote that having a successful long-term relationship is the most pressing issue of our time. Generation Z has no …
A similar version of this article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. If you’re in a traditional(ish) marriage—that is, if you’re part of the majority of married women in America who are either not employed at all or who are employed part-time—you’ve hit the jackpot. Countless modern marriages are struggling today or falling apart …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. What if all you need to be successfully married is a change of attitude? Sound too good to be true? It isn’t. You’d be surprised what a simple shift in thinking can do. Your attitude is the single most important determinant of your success in life. …
The following post is the first of a series of posts on modern American dating and young people’s inability to form lasting attachments that potentially lead to marriage. Remember when dating was fun and relatively easy to do? Remember when it was viewed as a step toward a committed relationship or even marriage? Tell that …
I have a 19-year-old daughter in college who, like most young women her age, enjoys an abundance of support and guidance with respect to her professional endeavors—as she should. What she will not receive is any encouragement or direction for what will someday collide with those professional endeavors and, more importantly, what will have the …
Lynn, 38, was unhappy in her marriage. Her husband was a good man and a great father, and he made a good living. But Lynn was bored. She wanted the excitement of something new, and she wanted to be married to a wealthier man. After several affairs, Lynn finally found what she was looking for …
The year 2019 has begun with a bang. A gender bang, you might say. As if the APA’s new guidelines that deem masculinity “harmful” wasn’t bad enough, Gillette subsequently released a patronizing ad that targets masculinity as well. Even worse, it will air during the Super Bowl. I could wax poetic about the egregious cultural …
This article was first published at the Washington Examiner. As many of you know, I‘m finishing up a manuscript for a new book that helps women find Mr. Right and keep him by embracing sexual inequality, aka the innate differences between women and men. So-called gender equality presumes the sexes are interchangeable when they are not. …
Note: The following article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. Just because something’s not supposed to be said doesn’t mean it isn’t true. It just means you’re not supposed to say it. In a segment Wednesday about men in decline and what it means for the country, Tucker Carlson pointed out “study after study has …
As some would tell it, Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee refuting allegations of sexual misconduct raises concerns over whether his temperament is fit for the highest court in the land. The American Bar Association (ABA) has since reopened its evaluation of Kavanaugh due to his temperament. Richard Blumenthal even went so far …
Tucker Carlson is my new favorite person. And I liked him plenty before! Here he is being his reasonable self in an interview with me in 2013 about an article I wrote that caused controversy, all because I said women who want children need husbands upon which they can depend if they want to find balance in their lives.”I’m confused as to why this is controversial,” said Carlson, truly perplexed. “If I got up and said, and it would be true if I did, that I rely completely on my wife, I would
“How bizarre it is to have to argue the obvious, to have to prove over and over again what is self-evident, so let me be as offensive as I possibly can: Men are men and women are women. They are essentially different and designed for a natural division of labor. Period.”So begins the interview with Mallory Millett at Front Page Magazine, which essentially amounts to a scathing indictment of her sister Kate Millett’s influence, as well as feminism’s influence in general, on American
This article was originally published at The Federalist. In 2012 I wrote an article at Fox News entitled “The War on Men” in response to a Pew Research finding that showed women ages 18-34 believe having a successful marriage is “one of the most important things in their lives”— and that fewer men were voicing this same opinion. The takeaway? Women want to marry as much as ever, but men increasingly do not.And yet, that isn’t the end of the conversation.The same month that finding released, a
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