Investigates several sets of personality and attitudinal variables to assess their relationship to one clear-cut example of sex-role behavior, namely, labor-force participation on the part of married women, and corrects some methodological limitations of earlier studies. (Author)

Using data from study of young families in an affluent Hong Kong housing complex, author contends that role reorganization within nuclear family and, specifically, changing role of Chinese wives, has created a new family structure which reinforces rather than rejects traditional norms of shared residence and reciprocal aid among kin. (Author)

This paper reviews the history of women's status before, during and after the Chinese Communists' attainment of power, and analyzes societal forces which have either promoted or inhibited family reform. (Author)

Studies on women compared with men in Iran (as an example of a fast-developing country) relating to achievement and vocational behavior showed results quite similar to those reported on American women. Iranian women emphasized external attribution of cause of success/failure, and were less sex discriminatory than men. (Author)

Mexican children from Cosomaloapan (male dominated) and Tehuantepec (female dominated) were asked to draw "the person you'd like to be." In Cosomaloapan, 96% of the females and 93% of the males drew their own sex. In Tehuantepec, 76% of the males and 71% of the females drew theirs. There were highly significant between-city differences…