ABSTRACT
It is important to explain at the outset what this book does not do. We have already insisted that it is not a study of the emancipation of women in the feminist sense and that it is not intended to be an academic treatise but a book for the general reader. Though it is certainly not our intention to discourage professional social scientists from reading it, we have not written particularly for them. Yet this is a sociological work. Aimed at a wider public than usual, it is nonetheless concerned with matters of sociological interest, treated in a sociological framework.
