SOLD OUT.  

Meet Suzanne Venker.  Suzanne is the author of the forthcoming book "How To Choose A Husband (And Make Peace With Marriage)" as well as "The 7 Myths of Working Mothers" and "The Flipside of Feminism," which she co-authored with her aunt - who you may have heard of - Phyllis Schlafly.  With all the campaign season talk of the "War on Women," Suzanne answered with an op-ed titled "The War on Men."  She soon found herself swept up in a media firestorm like nothing else she's experienced.  With the typically shallow, angry and superficial culture war raging around us, we thought it was the right time to have a better conversation - and we believe women are just the ones to get that done.  Suzanne will join Staci Fox - who, as the President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of North Florida, knows a thing or two about firestorms - and Rosalind Fuse-Hall of Florida A&M University as a panel of three incredible women coming from three entirely different places on where women are today, where we're going and how we get there.  You know, The Village Square.  We plan to show America how it's done, and it just won't be the same without you there.

You've Come a Long Way, Baby?  The Politics of the Feminine.

In 2020 we'll celebrate 100 years since the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and women having the right to vote.  And what a 100 years it has been!  Nearly everything has changed in our families, in our work lives and in the choices women have in how to lead their lives. 

The 2012 election cycle brought with it a swirl of activity around America's women. The presidential candidates targeted women as the key demographic to win the White House, as talking heads went on and on about just what it would take to win their votes. And we heard a little too much about "binders full of women" and "legitimate rape" for one election cycle.

At the same time, real issues affecting women have become the hottest topics in our civic dialogue and Americans clearly have enduring disagreement about how they should be resolved. Abortion remains the most divisive political and moral issue of our time, as the source of a vast number of legislative and legal skirmishes from attempts to defund Planned Parenthood to personhood bills that would define life as beginning at conception and possibly outlaw in vitro fertilization and even "the pill." For the fifty years of women raised since Roe v. Wade, things could be about to change. For those who want it to change, beyond the moral argument there is a sense that feminism and the sexual revolution may have unleashed unintended consequences with relationships between men and women fundamentally transformed. 

Sure we disagree about the fundamentals, but are we completely missing a real conversation about the real lives of America's daughters?  We've all heard the sound byte version of this debate, but we're going to scratch the surface and try to have a real one.