European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes apr 1977 my goal is creation of a society where gender makes no Karen Decrow the cautious people Are no going to change the world Fly Maiv kiss associated press auks 1vcuow used lobe a lot of things she used in be an Al american girl who tried to Art stupid and helpless to attract men Mie used to be married and a Dutiful Huus Wilc she used to be resorts editor for Call digest she was editor of the pregnant teenager and a Uller of attic Young woman guide to liberation and senal she was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Syra and until a few Days she was president of the National organization for but she leaves the women rights group with declining membership and trying u heal itself of a bitter Dissen Sion so serious that now founder Betty Riodan once threatened to Start a rival she also leaves at a time when the women movement has suffered severe setbacks the defeat of the equal a Glits amendment in new new Jersey and Flori leaving that no goal of now still three states Short of enactment and a More Distant possibility than Ever before tit housewife turned crusader for women Equality probably has sparked More dissension Nubin the country largest women rights organization than any time in its 10year internal fired by de crows differences with her Board plagued now during her first Terra and came to a head at the raucous now convention in 1975 at which she narrowly won but in recent fighting has subsided and one of de crows hotly debated policies More political involvement by including vigorous campaigns against anti Eila and antiabortion candidates seems to be bearing at least in one or two Indiana in january became the 35th state to ratify the thereby breaking a two year logjam Over its adopt Decrow took credit on nows its obvious that the strategy of defeating Anli Eua candidates worked in she supporters regard the troubles of a crows presidency As an inevitable but healthy result of her efforts to broaden the her most outspoken says the problem is de crows pseudo Radical rhetoric and her attempts to divert now from the interests of the majority of Amer ican women Middle class american no matter whats it offends Ducrow says with a the cautious people Are not going to change the at de crows personality and style Are As controversial As her ideological differences with some now Mem she can be maddeningly unyielding and at the democratic National for she flatly refused to accept a Compromise with Jimmy Carter that promised somewhat less than the 50 per cent representation at future conventions that women Conven Tion delegates had pressed if god can ordain equal representation of women and modern living the democratic party Doles she Bli City for each round in ans  to Ros Only policies at bars and he Usy Earold male Sanctuary of ale House in new York her court suit forced the bar divorced Mccrow said she doubted mainly hot Werft my cup of and because she b Cornice sex ind occur outside of mar whose slightly overweight Frame betrays her enthusiasm for cheerfully acknowledges that the perquisites of travel and prestige were a big attraction of no Job Ive Ever had is As much pm As being president of i Donl know any Man or Aroen with the exception of Jimmy Carter whose use to As interesting As she said one Day recently one recent a just awakened Karen Clad tact opened her front door at 11 in a night owl she within afew she had changed into Blue jeans and a Denim she made a cup of instant lit a settled into an easy chair and started talking about her recent trip to her the War Between the her me As now she grew up in Chicago in what she describes As a Middle class jewish family with no she was a Gutsy kid who thought i could do anything i and in High school she ran almost every got straight As and had no shortage of Al Northwestern University Medill school of journal from which she was graduated in she continued to get excellent grades and was news editor of the College but she was mainly interested in finding a husband who would be a great 1 used to sit around the Coffee shop looking for medical or sit in that part of the Library where the Law students i certainly would have been against women liberation and shocked by the idea of a woman making As much or More than her six months after she was married to a Law from the she she embraced the traditional role of lie she enjoyed her various writ inn and editing lint she regarded her 1 occupation As guv in twill she moved where her husbands jote look thin Iii did most of tile she 1 Hud Kitten very thai Are to hat Are support to be dial men Are judged by their women by their and As Simon de Beauvoir my fire cd for being women Are Punis Hix fur being when was she worked As a writer for a federally funded education project in Syracuse and discovered Fiat men who we rent As Good As 1 was were making More Money for the same in she and several other women formed the Syra Cuse chapter of and one of their first targets was the Syracuse school Decrow appeared at school Board meetings to argue against the inequality of appropriating for boys sports and j200 for girls though Karen Decrow became a feminist for a most conventional she is regarded these Days As some thing of a Radical in when she ran for she pledged to take now out of the mainstream and into us revolution by making racism and lesbian rights concerns of the women that position aroused the angry but she says she decided lesbian rights was a feminist Issue when she saw the juror it caused in now and realized that people Are to cued of any person who is not going to play the proper my she is the creation of a society where gender makes no difference in the Way you Lead your most women still end up in traditionally female were interested in raising the salaries and Security of those Sterol pc jobs and in attacking the problems of she decided not to run for another term As 1 que lion what w 1 have lots of Lovely she says a def irtely going to write a Book on my trip to China and prac maybe ill run