the modern era. Industry has been taken out of the home, and large families are no longer economically possible or socially desired. The home is no longer the center of the husband's life, and for the traditional wife there is only a narrowing of interests and possibilities for development: "Increasingly, the woman finds herself without an occupation and with an unsatisfactory emotional life" (Fremon 13). The change in sex roles that can be discerned in society is closely tied with changes in the structure of the family. Sociologists recognize that women have roles in the family and roles in public life, and they find that "the relative status of women in family life is more difficult to measure than their status in public affairs" (Giele 139). Changes in both family structure and sex roles over the last century have produced the ferment we still see today, and one of the problems with the changing role of women is the degree to which society perceives this as causing unwanted changes in the family, though it is just
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