JD Vance said professional women choose “a path to misery” by prioritizing their careers over having children—and argued that men and boys were “suppressed,” in a resurfaced podcast from 2021.
“You have women who think that truly the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle at McKinsey instead of starting a family and having children,” the GOP vice presidential nominee says in the audio clip. “What they don’t realize—and I think some of them do eventually realize that, thank God—is that that is actually a path to misery.”
Donald Trump’s running mate specifically referenced his female classmates at Yale Law School, who “are caught up in a rat race that... is making them really miserable.” Vance met his wife, Usha, while studying alongside her at the elite university.