Women in the United States of America and Canada / Florence L. Denmark, Laurel Schwartz, and Kathleen Maurer Smith -- Women of the Arctic (Alaska) : a culture in transition / Margaret Fischer -- Women in Latin America / Ruben Ardila -- Women in Poland / Halina Grzymala-Moszczynska -- Women in the USSR / Lena Zhernova -- Soviet women / Harold Takooshian -- Growing up female : a life-span perspective on women in Israel / Marilyn P. Safir and Dafna N. Izraeli -- Women in Egypt and the Sudan / Ramadan A. Ahmed -- Some traditional aspects of Nigerian women / Nmutaka Agnes Oby Okafor -- Life stages in the development of the Hindu woman in India / Usha Kumar -- Tribal women of India : the Tharu women / Uma Singhal and Hihar R. Mrinal -- Women in Thailand / Harry W. Gardiner and Ormsin Sornmoonpin Gardiner -- Women in China / Lucy C. Yu and Lee Carpenter -- Women in Japan / Naohiko Fukada -- Women in Western Samoa / Corey J. Muse -- Women in Australia / Brian R. Costello and Janet Lee Taylor