Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow is a nationally recognized author and attorney specializing in Constitutional law, gender and age discrimination, and civil liberties. Her long involvement with the National Organization for Women goes back to 1967; from 1968 to 1974 she served as National Board Member of NOW, and from 1974 to 1977 as its President. In 1988 she co-founded (with Robert Seidenberg) World Woman Watch. Karen is based in upstate New York

Ms. DeCrow is the author of many articles and columns in publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. In 1990 she was given the Syracuse University Press Club's Professional Recognition Award for Best Newspaper Column. She writes a regular column in the Syracuse New Times. At intervals, this is distributed by New York Times Special Features Syndicate.

Ms. DeCrow has written several books: University Adult Education (co-authored with Roger DeCrow, American Council on Education, 1967), The Young Woman's Guide to Liberation (Bobbs-Merrill, 1971), Sexist Justice (Random House, 1974), Women Who Marry Houses: Panic and Protest in Agoraphobia (with Robert Seidenberg, M.D., McGraw-Hill, 1983).

Karen DeCrow has lectured widely in the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico, Greece, Finland and the USSR, at universities, law schools, corporations and graduate schools.

Topics: A broad range of subjects including law, gender issues, a history of the feminist movement, international feminism, and employment discrimination.