In order for Abba to be admitted to the society of civilized planets, it had made slight improvements in its treatment of women. Until then, women were considered as not human, as a sort of necessary beast, but not more....As a result, one brilliant female had risen to the top, the Seventh Level. Thereby she had become the spiteful target of male fury, female envy, and finally of a deviously evil plot that might cost the world its status.