Table of Contents:
  • Introduction /
  • Elise Boulding
  • I. The complex equation of social policy, social science, and sex roles
  • The dialectic between research and social policy : the difficulties from a policy perspective-Rashomon Part I /
  • Jean Lipman-Blumen
  • The dialectic between research and social policy : the diffictulties from a research perspective-Rashomon Part II /
  • Jean Lipman-Blumen
  • Where research and policy connect : the American scene /
  • Sandra S. Tangri and Georgina L. Strasburg
  • Demographic indicators of the status of women in various societies /
  • Nadia H. Youssef and Shirley Foster Hartley
  • A paradigm for predicting the position of women : policy implications and problems /
  • Rae Lesser Blumberg
  • II. The deliberate use of policy to change sex roles
  • Public policy and changing family patterns in Sweden, 1930-1977 /
  • Annika Baude
  • Women in Eastern Europe /
  • Hilda Scott
  • Social policy and the family in Norway /
  • Harriet Holter and Hildur Ve Henriksen
  • The changing role of women in Jordan : 'a threat or an asset?' /
  • Nimra Tannous Es-Said
  • Fertility policy in India /
  • Vina Mazumdar
  • III. Women as policy makers
  • Women as policy makers : the case of France /
  • Claude du Granrut
  • Women as voters : from redemptive to futurist role /
  • Jessie Bernard
  • Women as change agents : toward a conflict theoretical model of sex role change /
  • Constantina Safilios-Rothschild
  • Policy and women's time /
  • Jessie Bernard
  • IV. Unresolved issues : a look to the future
  • Educational policy for women : a look ahead /
  • Virginia Y. Trotter
  • The rights of women and the role of international law /
  • Cecilia Marchand
  • Beyond equality /
  • Judith Buber Agassi
  • The policy promissory note : time to deliver /
  • Jean Lipman-Blumen and Jessie Bernard.