ABSTRACT
Women's education has ceased to mean "cooking, dressmaking, household management, child care, and entertaining," and now denotes the wide range of topics discussed in the collection of articles from Change Magazine grouped together here. Back in 1969, when affirmative action programs were still sleeping underground, Ruth Hawkins described "The Odds Against Women." It is an interesting and still useful report of the actual situation; but its analysis of the psychological background to the situation is even more telling. The effort to deal with the problem by making education for women more special and private proved to be exactly wrong; but it was evidence that some disturbance was being felt. In general, the position of the Establishment is a grudging acceptance of the presence of women, an acceptance enforced to some extent by government antidiscrimination orders, but certainly not a warm and welcoming hospitality.
