List of Tables and Figures - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Re- assessing Women\'s Working Lives: An Introductory Essay; S.Arber & N.Gilbert - PART 1 WOMEN\'S LABOUR MARKET POSITION: IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL POLICIES - World War, Women\'s Work and the Gender Division of Paid Labour; R.Brown - Gender-role Attitudes in Britain and the USA; J.Scott & J.Duncombe - Money, Marriage and Motherhood: Dual Earner Households after Maternity Leave; J.Brannen - Employment and Domestic Work: A Comparison of Samples of British and French Women; I.Procter & P.Ratcliffe - Feminisation of the Labour Force in Britain and France; P.Walters & S.Dex - Demographic Change and \'New Opportunities\' for Women: The Case of Employers\' Career Break Schemes; C.Truman - Women Under Glasnost: An Analysis of Women\'s Place in Contemporary Soviet Society; K.Richards Broschart - PART 2 BREAKING MALE DEFINITIONS OF WORK - Wives\' and Husbands\' Labour Market Participation and Household Resource Distribution in the Context of Middle-Class Male Unemployment; G.Leighton - The Modern Cinderellas: Women and the Contract Cleaning Industry in Belfast; M.Leonard - Women, Business and Self-Employment: A Conceptual Minefield; S.Allen & C.Truman - Trading Relationships: Home Selling and Petty Enterprise in Women\'s Lives; F.Poland - Bibliography - Index