Conclusion

Abstract

The world has definitely changed. Once most women shunned the paid work force, preferring whenever possible to stay at home and care for spouse and children, willingly making the homemaker’s role the focus of their lives; now women take paid employment for granted, even after marriage and into motherhood, and have entered the labour force in such huge numbers that the female presence there will soon equal its proportion in the population. Once, most working women took jobs in rigidly sex-segregated workplaces, unremunerative work, the sort traditionally set aside for women; now women work in all sectors of the economy, including those once considered exclusively male domains, competing with men and achieving noteworthy successes in the arts and sciences, and in commerce and industry. It is no exaggeration to call these changes revolutionary.