1. The breakup of the sex role caste system --;2. Why did women emerge? --;3. The social factors : births, schools, divorces, ideas --;4. "Women's place" in the labor market --;5. Occupational segregation by sex : the root of women's disadvantage --;6. Setting the pay for the jobs women hold --;7. Government action against discrimination --;8. Affirmative action and pay equity --;9. The occupation of housewife --;10. Lone parents and their poverty --;11. Keeping house : the economics and politics of family care --;12. "Industrializing" housework and child care --;13. A policy agenda for the sex-role revolution.