With the publication of The Myth of Male Power, Dr. Warren Farrell became the first masculist. He started his career in the early 1970s as a champion of feminism, even serving on the board of NOW. By the mid seventies, he became frustrated with the female exclusiveness and total disregard for men's issues by NOW and broke from them. His early books in the Seventies, "The Liberated Man" and "Why Men are the Way they are", were more in the vein of "masculinism", the male feminist approach to men's issues. His masculist works, besides "Myth of Male Power", are his "Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say" and his most recent work "Father and Child Reunion".
The approaches to sex issues, which he has pioneered, have come to be the cornerstones of masculism. Unlike some conservative and religious masculists, his ideology is one of gender equivalence and a reduction in gender roles. This is manifested in his critical examination of the power imbalance between the sexes that heavily favors women. According to Farrell in Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, p2: "The women's movement had done a wonderful job of freeing women from sex roles, but no one did the same for men."
Dr. Farrell was a candidate for governor in the 2003 California recall election. He placed 97th in a field of 135 candidates.
