From August 4 to 8, 1980, the Science Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sponsored the symposium, "Women and the World of Work," which was held at the Hotel Sintra Estoril in the coastal area south of Lisbon, Portugal. This symposium hatl been "in progress" since 1977 when the idea to prepare a proposal for a NATO sponsored symposium on the topic of women and the military was first suggested by Dr. Walter Wilkins, then Scientific Director of the Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California. At that time and during the previous 5 years, increasing numbers of women were being recruited into military service not only in the United States but also in several NATO-allied countries. Few research projects on the utilization of women in the military had been reported in the scientific literature with the exception of work conducted at the University of Chicago and Naval Health Research Center. Several investigators, however, were identified who had recently initiated research in this area-and who expressed interest in participating in the proposed symposium. A few months after submitting the proposal, Dr. B. A. Bayraktar, Director of the Scientific Affairs Division responded that the members of the Science Committee recommended the deletion of those segments of the tentative program which pertained to women and the military. The reason given for this suggested change was that the topic chosen was similar to the theme of other recent international conferences.

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I: Women and the World of Work: Contributions and Progress.- Women as World Makers.- The Education and Employment of Women Scientists and Engineers in the United States.- Elected Women: Skewers of the Political System.- The Relationship between the Labor Force Employment of Women and the Changing Social Organization in Canada.- Power and Political Behaviors in Organizations: A New Frontier for Research on Male/Female Differences.- Sex-Role Stereotypes and Personal Attributes within a Developmental Framework.- II: Women and the World of Work: Physical, Mental, and Economic Well-Being.- Bringing Down the Rear: The Decline in the Economic Position of Single-Mother Families.- Job Creation and Unemployment for Canadian Women.- Poverty Viewed as a Woman's ProblemThe U.S. Case.- Poverty, Work, and Mental Health: The Experience of Low-Income Mothers.- III: Women and the World of Work: Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Women's Increased Labor Force Participation.- Microeconomic Effects of Women Entering the Labor Force.- Women's Work and the Family Wage in Canada.- A Statistical Analysis of Female Participation in Work and the Effects on the Population and Socioeconomic Development: A Case Study of Greece.- Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Women in Andalusia.- Economic Aspects of Female Labor Force Participation in the Federal Republic of Germany.- IV: Women and the World of Work: Role Integration and Revision.- Child Care Use and Constraints in the United States.- The Attitude of Danish Mothers to Child Care, 19751979.- Research on Women's Work and the Family at the Urban Institute.- Women's Work Participation and the Economic Support of Children.- Concluding Comment.- About the Authors.- List of Participants.