Women working: toward a new society / Alan Pifer -- Women working: historical trends / Sharlene J. Hesse -- Occupational values and family roles: women in blue-collar and service occupations / Mary Lindenstein Walshok -- Racial differences in female labor-force participation: trends and implications for the future / Frank L. Mott -- Women, work, and welfare: the feminization of poverty / Diana Pearce -- Husbands at home: organization of the husband's household day / Sarah Fenstermaker Berk -- Job-sharing couples / William Arkin and Lynne R. Dobrofsky -- Directions for day care / Karen Wolk Feinstein -- Nontraditional work schedules for women / Denise F. Polit -- Hours rigidity: effects on the labor-market status of women / Ralph E. Smith -- Employment problems of women: federal government examples / Nijole V. Benokraitis -- Women's retirement income / William D. Spector