Abstract
The past decade has witnessed a tremendous growth in cross-cultural research on sexual inequality. This research has challenged traditional assumptions about women's roles and statuses in society. Prior to this time, the subordinate position of women was largely taken for granted; women's place was in the home, and they were excluded from what were considered to be the important activities in society. Recent research has raised numerous questions about the earlier doctrine and has also generated lively controversies about the dimensions, causes, and limits of sexual inequality. In this paper, we use a worldwide sample to test Karen Sacks's Marxist-feminist analysis of the evolution of sexual inequality in Africa.' Sacks's work has been influential, but, unlike some other recent works on sexual inequality, it has not been tested on a worldwide sample.
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