Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: occupational segregation in International Women's Year / Barbara B. Reagan and Martha Blaxall
  • Can we still afford occupational segregation? Some remarks / Martha W. Griffiths
  • The social institutions of occupational segregation
  • Toward a homosocial theory of sex roles: an explanation of the sex segregation of social institutions / Jean Lipman-Blumen
  • Work aspiration of women: false leads and new starts / Judith Long Laws
  • Dual linkages between the occupational and family systems: a macrosociological analysis / Constantina Safilios-Rothschild
  • Occupational segregation and the law / Margaret J. Gates
  • Comment I / Kenneth Boulding
  • Comment II / Harold J. Leavitt
  • Comment III / Karen Oppenheim Mason
  • Comment IV / Sandra S. Tangri
  • The historical roots of occupational segregation
  • Historical and structural barriers to occupational desegregation / Jessie Bernard
  • Familial constraints on women's work roles / Elise Boulding
  • Occupational segregation and public policy: a comparative analysis of American and Societ patterns / Gail Warshofsky Lapicus
  • Capitalism, patriarchy, and job segregation by sex / Heidi Hartmann
  • Comment I / Carl N. Degler
  • Comment II / Hanna Papanek
  • Economic dimensions of occupational segregation
  • Economists' approaches to sex segregation in the labor market: an appraisal / Francine D. Blau and Carol L. Jusenius
  • Discrimination and poverty among women who head families / Isabel Sawhill
  • Women: the new reserve army of the unemployed / Marianne A. Ferber and Helen M. Lowry
  • Comment I / Kenneth Arrow
  • Comment II / David M. Gordon
  • Comment III / Janice Fanning Madden
  • Combating occupational segregation
  • The policy issues: can we agree on goals, and how do we get there? Panel discussion
  • Introduction / Phyllis A. Wallace
  • Presentation I / Ruth G. Shaeffer
  • Presentation II / Nira Long
  • Presentation III / Winn Newman
  • Presentation IV / Bernice Sandler
  • Presentation V / Janet L. Norwood
  • Presentation VI / Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Toward dimorphics: a summary statement to the conference on occupational segregation / Myra H. Strober
  • Sex differences in economists' fields of specialization / Myra H. Strober and Barbara B. Reagan.