One perspective argues that, despite family and human crises, traditions, practices, and roles that limit the rights of women must be challenged. The second perspective maintains that the women's movement is detrimental to most ethnocultural groups and that family solidarity and accepted traditions are more important. (EB)

This article examines some persistent paradoxes in the definition of the male role, and proposes a distinction between traditional and modern male roles. Four current perspectives on the problem of the male role are distinguished. (Author/AM)

The three female characters in Schiller's "Kabale und Liebe" are analyzed. The article questions the value of using this play in a college curriculum because of the oppressive and unenlightened roles of the female characters. (TL)

College women believe both the maternal role and the career role provide a variety of rewards. Though the marital and emotional costs of each role are recognized, college women do not hold a realistic impression of the role conflict and strain connected with the career role. (PS)

Examined role position and interdependence in 135 pairs of student women and their mothers and 119 pairs of middle-aged women and their mothers. Results suggest that except for younger pairs where married daughters and their mothers are less interdependent than single daughters and their mothers, interdependence is unrelated to role positions.…

Young adult, midlife, and older women from four role groups--homemaker, married career, single career, and student--were compared on a number of personality measures including achievement motivation, affiliation, autonomy, cultural sex role characteristics, self-esteem, and adjustment. Some significant age and role differences were found.…

Discusses the contents of children's literature and textbooks written for children which perpetuate sexual stereotypes of females. (RB)

Argues for career education courses in the late elementary and junior high years with special emphasis on career planning for girls who will face a special challenge in the job market. (RB)

Discusses the continuing debate over the existing social relations between the sexes; that is, whether subordination of females to males is derived from biological differences or is brought about as a result of the existing social structure. (SB)

Study suggests that the effects of father absence on daughters appear during adolescence and are manifested mainly as an inability to interact appropriately with males, rather than in other deviations from appropriate sex typing or in interactions with females. (Author/CB)

Many educational and employment opportunities are open to women if they are sufficiently interested, talented, and motivated. (DS)

The author's clinical experience and her personal experience lead her to be concerned about another kind of woman, one who is unable to integrate the traditional ideals of womanhood with the expanded experience and opportunities of modern woman. (Author)

Sources of marital power are examined and are found to affect the power distribution. Data points to the conclusion that the differences in marital power are not due to individual resources or personal competence of the partners, but to the discrimination against women in the larger society. (Author)