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Examines the relationship between gender and war in the context of ethnicity, citizenship, history, women's agency, regional differences, aspects of motherhood, and peace activism; questions the notion of women as essentially nonviolent. Some focus on the Bosnian violence and on peace activism by Israeli, Palestinian, and Afghan women; includes feminist perspectives.

WOMEN HAVE BECOME, AS NEVER BEFORE, THE PRIMARY VICTIMS IN THE WARS OF OUR TIMES

Reviews Russell P. Dobash, R. Emerson Dobash, Sue Gutteridge, The Imprisonment of Women. New York: Basil Blackwell Inc., 1986; and Nicole Hahn Rafter, Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985. (PAS)

Although women go to work in increasing numbers in the US (55% of women aged 18-64), they are still paid less than men, earning about 60% of what men earn in similar jobs. Women also have more limited occupational choices & less mobility than men, & tend to be concentrated in clerical work, sales, & service occupations (eg, waitresses, hairdressers). Status jobs involve professional commitment, & according to cultural mores, women must be committed to the family first. Women are typically found in work in which they can be easily replaced; on-the-job training for women is not comparable to that given men. Sex-typing of professions affects a field's prestige, & "feminine" professions invite discrimination. F academics compete favorably with men in prestige & salary in scientific & mathematical disciplines, but not so favorably in the humanities, where their numbers are greater. D. Dunseath.

Sex discrimination is embedded in the personal income tax system of the UK which favours married men and operates against married women. The view that women are men's dependants, institutionalised in the tax system, offends very many women and should have no place in a society committed to equality between the sexes.