Rhona Mahony graduated from Brown University and Harvard Law School. She has worked as a legal services lawyer for migrant farmworkers and written for The Economist, Ms., and the Guardian (London). She can be reached at rmahony@leland.stanford.edu and athttp://www-leland.stanford.edu/~rmahony.

• * Introduction The Elements of Negotiation * Womens Predicament * How Women Negotiate * BATNAs, Babies, and Bedrock Facts Negotiating Womens Lives * A Traditional Marriage * Two Transitional Marriages * A Nontraditional Marriage Setting New Precedents * A World in Transition * Myths That Hold Us Back * Government and Employers * A Future World

Rhona Mahony graduated from Brown University and Harvard Law School. She has worked as a legal services lawyer for migrant farmworkers and written for The Economist, Ms., and the Guardian (London). She can be reached at rmahony@leland.stanford.edu and athttp://www-leland.stanford.edu/~rmahony.

• * Introduction The Elements of Negotiation * Womens Predicament * How Women Negotiate * BATNAs, Babies, and Bedrock Facts Negotiating Womens Lives * A Traditional Marriage * Two Transitional Marriages * A Nontraditional Marriage Setting New Precedents * A World in Transition * Myths That Hold Us Back * Government and Employers * A Future World