ABSTRACT
Of all the forms of discrimination in American life today, none remains more pervasive or more invidious than that directed against women. In industry, government and academia, women by and large are excluded from positions of power, as defined by salary, prestige and decision-making authority. Men right out of college are recruited for executive training, while women with the same qualifications are offered secretarial jobs. Sixty-six percent of employed women with from one to three years of college, 20 percent of employed women with a college degree, and 7 percent of employed women with one or more years beyond the first degree are sales ladies, office clerks, nursemaids, and household cooks. The parallel between the treatment of blacks and women by our society was drawn by Gunnar Myrdal in an appendix to his classic, The American Dilemma. The goal of the new feminists is an ideological one: equality between the sexes.
