1. Warren Thomas Farrell was born on June 26,1943 and is an American political scientist and activist who initially came to prominence in the 1970s as a supporter of second wave feminism.
23 Facts About Warren Farrell
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Warren Farrell is the author of nine books on the issues of men, women, fathers, and couples' communication.
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Warren Farrell served for three years on the New York City Board of the National Organization for Women.
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Warren Farrell's books cover history, law, sociology and politics ; couples' communication ; economic and career issues ; child psychology and child custody ; and teenage to adult psychology and socialization.
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Warren Farrell is the eldest of three children born to an accountant father and housewife mother.
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Warren Farrell graduated from Midland Park High School in New Jersey in 1961.
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Warren Farrell was an assistant to the president of New York University.
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Warren Farrell has taught university level courses in five disciplines.
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Warren Farrell wrote Why Men Are The Way They Are to answer women's questions about men in a way he hoped rang true for the men.
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In 1993, Warren Farrell wrote The Myth of Male Power, in which he argued that the widespread perception of men having inordinate social and economic power is false, and that men are systematically disadvantaged in many ways.
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Susan Faludi argued that Warren Farrell had effectively recanted his original position as part of a generalized backlash against feminism.
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The increase in divorces in the 1980s and 1990s turned Warren Farrell's writing toward two issues: the poverty of couples' communication and children's loss of their father in child custody cases.
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In Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, Warren Farrell asserts that couples often fail to use couples' communication outside of counseling if the person receiving criticism does not know how to make her or himself feel safe.
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Warren Farrell develops a method called "Cinematic Immersion" to create that safety and overcome what he posits is humans' biological propensity to respond defensively to personal criticism.
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Warren Farrell writes that men chose to earn more money, while each of women's choices prioritized having a more balanced life.
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Warren Farrell felt gender studies in universities rarely incorporated the masculine gender except to demonize it.
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Warren Farrell married Ursula, a mathematician and IBM executive, in the 1960s.
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Warren Farrell has two stepdaughters, and the couple resides in Mill Valley, California.
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Warren Farrell backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election.
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Warren Farrell was then invited by the Center for World Spirituality to be one of their world leaders.
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Warren Farrell speaks frequently on boys, men's and gender issues, including doing a keynote in 2016 for UK Male Psychology Conference.
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In 2009, a call from the White House requesting Warren Farrell to be an advisor to the White House Council on Women and Girls led to Warren Farrell creating and chairing a commission to create a White House Council on Boys and Men.
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Warren Farrell appeared in Cassie Jaye's 2016 documentary film about the men's rights movement, The Red Pill.