Who Is Warren Farrell?

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After failing this audition for the Bee Gees, Cleveland’s Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame told me to keep my day job: “Just keep trying to get men and women to understand each other: you’ll be employed forever.” Seriously, this is from a 1979 feature in Cleveland’s the Plain Dealer. Photo by Clarence H. Copeland.”

Once upon a time, there was no beard. Just a curl. In 1972, while I was on the Board of NOW in NYC, I chaired its “Task Force on the Masculine Mystique,” and organized at NYU what may have been the first men’s liberation conference. My former wife, Ursie, posed with me for a UPI story by Patricia McCormick. Photo by UPI.

When the White House created only a White House Council on Women and Girls in 2009, it left out the other half of the family: Boys and Men. Dr. Warren Farrell organized national leaders into a coalition to create a White House Council on Boys and Men. On April 26, 2015, members went to Iowa and spoke personally with seven of the Republican presidential candidates to invite them to a conference in Iowa this July to listen to boys, parents and experts explain the boy crisis and consider a White House Council on Boys and Men as a coordinator of solutions. Here Farrell discusses with Rand Paul the importance of fathers as a way to strengthen the family and reduce “government-as-a-substitute-dad”. A few minutes later, Paul spoke with 1700 Republicans at the Faith and Freedom Coalition and stressed the importance of fathers.