Introduction. Government response to working women and their families : values, the policy-making process, and research utilization / Sarah Gideonse-- I. Caring for contemporary children -- The importance of early care / L. Alan Sroufe and Mary J. Ward -- Fathers, mothers, and childcare in the 1980s : family influences on child development / Michael E. Lamb -- Child care options and decisions : facts and figurings for families / Alice Sterling Honig -- Gender inequities in childhood social life and adult work life / Kathryn M. Borman and Judith Frankel -- II. Work and housework -- Men, women, work, and family / Jeylan T. Mortimer and Glorian Sorenson -- Paid and unpaid work : contradictions in American women's lives today / Nona Y. Glazer -- Sexual inequality : the high cost of leaving parenting to women / Daisy Quarm -- III. Contemporary American families face the future -- Conceptions of kinship and the family reproduction cycle / Bernard Farber -- Gender roles and the state / W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson
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"Developed from a conference held at the University of Cincinnati in May 1981"--Pref
