ABSTRACT
The talents of women, according to the optimum-utilization-of-human-resources policy, may be viewed as a resource to be exploited for the benefit of the economy as a whole, a reservoir to supply services our society needs and will increasingly need. Proponents of the optimum-utilization-of-human-resources policy orientation have in mind all those hospitals crying for nurses and technicians, all those clinics calling for therapists, all those laboratories calling for technicians and imaginative scientists. Policy must, that is, somehow or other help women meet conflicting demands of family roles by providing whatever services, including child care, are necessary. Policy has been especially diffident in the area of the relations of the sexes. Alvin Schorr reminds us, for example, that the national government "has tended to avoid deliberate influence of any sort on family patterns. The concern of policy with women's pursuit of happiness has now outgrown placing its emphasis primarily on their work roles.
