Word: decrow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karen DeCrow...
...Finnair ad, seeking to convince Americans that "great vacations start with flying Finnish," featured a fanciful headline about the invention of the sauna by a Finn who discovered that his wife "loved" being locked in a smokehouse and beaten with birch leaves. Lawyer Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, conceded in a letter to Finnair North American General Manager Leif Lundstrom that the airline had intended only to be funny-but added that wife beating was no laughing matter, either in Finland or the U.S. If Finnair did not drop the ad, said DeCrow, "we women...
...Karen DeCrow, ex-president, National Organization for Women: "Everybody was saying, 'Why do we have to go through Carter to the Congress? We could be the Congress...
...more women" into top levels of Government. But how many were enough to satisfy the passions such a promise aroused? Last week, as his second month in office ended, women were assessing Carter's performance and deciding that it fell well short of his declarations. Says Karen DeCrow, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW): "Women's rights are simply not a high priority of this Administration...
Last Gasp. The DeCrow group, which took 25 of 34 NOW offices in the October elections, regards Womansurge as a splinter faction of aging professional women willing to accept token advances and avoid new issues. "It's the last gasp of a very small group with a condescending view of what feminism is like," says DeCrow. "If you mention you want to change the behavior of men or if you mention gay rights, they're frightened away...