Contents

Sex roles, gender roles, and power -- The gender power relationship : its existential foundations -- Resources and contributions : maintaining the gender power ratio -- Macromanipulation, micromanipulation : the cultivation and poaching of power -- Why the powerless do not revolt -- Socialization for gender roles -- The pentimento of ancient gender images and contemporary control myths -- Gender roles and the family -- The sex-gender system and social class -- Education and gender roles -- Gender roles and employment -- Politics and gender roles -- What lies ahead.