Originally published: 2001. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. The responsibilities of life: the mere fact of sex -- A practical independence -- A man-run company -- Marriage: a defining condition -- 2. Maintaining self-respect: self-help is the best help -- Have we lost courage? -- A sieve with holes -- A foundling dumped upon the doorstep -- 3. Questions of equity: matters of right -- The hardest problem of the whole thing -- They feel that they have lost citizenship -- It would be a great comfort to him -- 4. A principle of law but not of justice: apportioning the income tax -- More than money is involved -- To confer a special benefit on the marital relationship -- 5. What discriminates? how're you going to feel? -- The President's Commission on the Status of Women -- Calling into question the entire doctrine of sex -- Equal pay for equal work -- 6. What's fair? constructing an equal opportunity framework -- Standing with Lot's wife -- Divided women -- At first glance, the idea may seem silly -- History is moving in this direction.
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