THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Dr. Kathryn F. Clarenbach
(1920-1994)
“She forged the link between the emergent women’s movement and traditional women’s organizations.”
Educator. Women’s Rights Advocate. Wisconsin Commission on the Status of Women. Co-founder of NOW 1966. President of the NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund (now Legal Momentum). Founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus and of the Wisconsin Women’s Network.
David Clarenbach Honors His Mother, September 15, 2012
Photo 1. Kathryn Clarenbach. Photo 2. Former State Rep. David Clarenbach with his mother Kathryn, a UW-Madison professor and co-founder of the National Organization for Women, in the early 1980s. Photos 3 and 4. Kathryn with Betty Friedan.
More About Kathryn:
- University of WI MINDS@UW Oral Interviews – 1987 – 1989
- Mary Jean Collins, Catherine Conroy and Kay Clarenbach reflect on the National Organization for Women, NOW State Conference, 1983. Footage courtesy of David Clarenbach
- Wisconsin Women Making History
- Alumni Park
- This Woman’s Work | On Wisconsin Magazine by Jenny Price
- Journey to Equality – U of W – Madison
- Kathryn Clarenbach: Unsung Heroine by Jenny Price March 2018
- Women’s Bar Association of Illinois
- Papers – UW-Madison Libraries
- Newspaper clippings 1962-1992
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 86