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A review by Virginia Novarra This book is based on an important and very unusual piece of research: a survey of 435 single (i.e. never married), and childless women in Melbourne between the ages of 30 and 65 and not living as a couple. Despite its Australian provenance, it can be taken as representing the position in the rest of the industrialised world. ‘The stereotype of single women portrays them as lonely, unfulfilled, anxious, neurotic, physically disadvantaged and sexually abnormal people. We have failed to find one woman with these features, although some of them were present in some women.” (p. 154).

This article represents the fruits of my investigations over the last year and a half into the hows and whys of appointments to non‐executive directorships. As with public appointments, it is obvious that having one's name on computerized talent banks does not necessarily lead to the desired appointment, or indeed to any appointment at all. Where non‐executive directors are increasingly sought after and difficult to find, expanding the search to the majority of the population (women) makes sense both for boards and for women themselves.

This article seeks to assess the likely impact on British managers of the 1975 UK legislation prohibiting sex discrimination, drawing on experience from the United States. It will consider the development of the US law and the effect this has had upon practice in the traditional personnel function. It will review portions of the British Statute and British case law dealing with discrimination in employment. In an attempt to assess the impact upon British practice it will explore the relationship between the UK and the US legislation and evaluate the strengths and weakness of each in its context.

25 July to 1 August 1982. Unioni Naisasialiitti Suomessary, The Finnish women's organisation, will be hosting the 26th Triennial Congress of the International Alliance of Women in Helsinki. The Alliance is one of the leading Non‐Governmental Organisations recognised by the United Nations and its agencies as representing women's interests, and has affiliated organisations in a large number of both developed and developing countries. The theme of the 1982 Congress is “Employment Patterns in the Eighties”. Enquiries to IAW, P.O. Box 355, Valetta, Malta or to Isari Mattila, UNIONI, Bulevard: 11 Al,00120 Helsinki, Finland.

Responses to the Gallup poll on support for the women's movement, reported in the last issue, reflected women's ambivalence to women's organizations compared with men's less equivocal support.

The inside story behind setting up the new National Organisation for Women's Management Education—from conception to the moment today where it is poised to launch an appeal for funds. Her description of the many backroom problems her group en‐countered and the nitty gritty details that have to be considered at every stage of planning will interest anyone who has ever thought of doing something similar, or just wondered how it could be achieved.