page_title: Warren Farrell
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Warren Farrell / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Warren Farrell and his wife with Robert Redford and wife at Farrell's home in California
context_page_description: Warren Thomas Farrell is an American political scientist, activist and author of seven books on men's and women's issues.
  Farrell initially came to prominence in the 1970s as a supporter of second wave feminism; he served on the New York City Board of the National Organization for Women. Although today he is generally considered "the father of the men's movement", he advocates that "there should be neither a women's movement blaming men, nor a men's movement blaming women, but a gender liberation movement freeing both sexes from the rigid roles of the past toward more flexible roles for their future."
  His 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. All of his books are related to men's and women's studies, including his March 2018 publication The Boy Crisis.
context_section_description: Farrell married Ursula (Ursie), a mathematician and IBM executive, in the sixties. After 10 years of marriage, in 1976, he and Ursie separated and subsequently divorced. After what Farrell described as "twenty years of adventuresome single-hood", he married Liz Dowling in August 2002. He has two step-daughters. They live in Mill Valley, California.
  Farrell backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election.
caption: Farrell with Robert Redford, Sibylle Szaggars, and Liz Dowling
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