The attempt was made to tap a study sample representative of social class gradations (from three city districts with respectively dominant, affluent, middle-class, and working class populations) and three generations (age 0-25, 25-50, 51 and up). Of 3,600 mailed questionnaires, 914 (25.4 percent) were answered. The study sought to ascertain whether working and nonworking women differ with respect to norm-abiding behavior and to types of deviant behavior and whether differences between working and nonworking women are evidenced across social classes. Responses failed to yield categorizable perceptions of emancipation, although it appeared that younger working women and older nonworking women feel more emancipated than their respectively nonworking and working contemporaries. A clear relationship was ascertained between work and norm-abiding behavior, with nonworking women reporting more and more serious types of criminal involvement. Among effects of the survey were observations at all social levels of male hostility toward the project, as opposed to respondents' interest in the results and the appreciated opportunity to express unrevealed personal secrets in an anonymous self-report form. Tabular data, footnotes, and 13 references are given.