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Includes bibliographies and indexes.

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.

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