Stockard, Jean2024-07-032024-07-031988https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2962011 pages. Paper presented in Plenary Session on "The Human Rights Movement: An Assessment in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr." at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Las Vegas.Today I want to comment briefly on the changes in women's position in our society over the last 20 years and the linkages between women's aspirations and the development of equal opportunity. I will first make a few general comments about changes in women's income, occupational aspirations and achievement; then describe preliminary results from my own study of women who "pioneered" in integrating male dominated fields in the last ten years; and, finally, discuss implications of these comments for understanding more about the movement toward greater equality.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USequal opportunitywomen in civil rightssex differencesaspirationssex segregationArticle