Chapter 1 1This chapter is a slightly amended and expanded version of a paper read by the author at the Sixth International Seminar on Family Research in Opatia (Yugoslavia) and subsequently published in Current Sociology, ‘The Sociology of the Family’, Vol. XIII, No. 1, 1963–64, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1964; Chapter 2 Working Wives; Chapter 3 Employing Married Women; Chapter 4 Into the Future;