Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; INTRODUCTION; PRERFACE; Table of Contents; PART I IN THE VILLAGE; 1 Male and Female Farming Systems; The Division of Labour within African Agriculture; The Plough, The Veil and the Labour; Population Pressure and Sex Roles in Farming; 2 The Economics of Polygamy; The Status of Younger Wives; Work Input and Women's Status; 3 Loss of Status under European Rule; The Responsibility of the European Rule; From Cultivator to Family Aid; The Revolt of the Women; 4 The Casual Worker; The Influence of Caste on Women's Work and Wages; Cheap Lobour for the Export Sector. The Female CoolieThe Impact of Agricultural Modernization on the Employment of Women; PART II IN THE TOWN; 5 Women in a Men's World; Sex and Race in Market Trade; Work Input and Earnings of Market Women; From the Market Place to the Super-Market; Female Services in Male Towns; Domestic Servants; 6 Industry: From the Hut to the Factory; Women's Drop-out from Industry; Why Employers Prefer Male Workers; Why Women Shun the Factory; 7 The Educated Woman; Seclusion in the Professions; The Feminization of Clerical Jobs; The Pull of White Collar Jobs; 8 Women in the Urban Hierarchy. Sex Differentials in Industrial Skills and WagesThe Hierarchy of Race and Sex; The Status of White Collar Workers; PART III FROM VILLAGE TO TOWN; 9 The Lure of the Towns; The Value of Subsistence Production; Subsistence Activities in Urban Areas; 10 Urban Job Opportunities for Women; The Two Steps in Economic Development; The Impact of Tradition and of Imported Culture Patterns; The Pattern of Migration and of Female Work; The Arab and the Latin American Patterns; The South East Asian Pattern; The African Pattern; 11 The Unemployment Scare; Employment Opportunities in Rural Areas. The Urban Labour MarketEducation as a Cause of Unemployment; The Cost of Urbanization; The Strategy of Development Planning; 12 The Design of Female Education; The Productivity of Female Labour; The Escape from Competition; Training for the Modern Sector; A New Pattern for the Future; APPENDIX TABLES; NOTES TO TABLES AND FIGURES; LIST OF WORKS CITED; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.