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.