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Deals with women at the level of educational administrators and outlines interviews with 17 women, both black and white, pointing up aspects of colour, sexism, prejudice, discrimination, female stereotyping and male chauvinism, and incidentally exposing the degradation common to a large number of schools in the US. Highlights the responsibility of women administrators for the welfare of their students as opposed to that of incompetent teachers and assails the hitherto impregnable bastions of the traditional male leader.

Quebec was the first Canadian jurisdiction to legislate on pay equality. It did so through the adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedom, in 1976, a passive legislation since it is based on complaints. It seems to be a matter of time before the Quebec Government passes a pro‐active legislation on pay equity and, in doing so, it will likely draw its inspiration from the Pay Equity Act (PEA) passed by the Ontario Government in 1987. One of PEAs important features is the emphasis on institutional structures and practices in determining the appropriate unit for the purpose of achieving pay equity. In practice, such units will often match up with the usual job families (e.g. clerical or office vs production jobs). However, the historical development of jobs families is intertwined with the evolution of occupational segregation between men and women in the labour markets.