Woman-headed households in industrial nations - gender labour markets and social policy, Marietta Morrissey; losing their privilege - the social organization of the new Hong Kong middle class Chinese immigrant women in Canada, Guida C. Man; women and families in Costa Rica, Norma J. Burgess and Regina George-Bowden; economic development, patriarchy, and intrahousehold dynamics - the case of high-tech workers in Taiwan (ROC), Esther Ngan-ling Chow; the economic consequences of disability status across ethnic and gender lines - a test of the multiple minority status hypothesis, Anna M. Santiago; male genders - cross-cultural perspective, Edwin S. Segal.