Using responses and anecdotes provided by over 600 respondents, they identify key issues and roadblocks faced
by dual career couples and provide potential solutions to some of these roadblocks.
Not exact matches
Nurture and housekeeping are the tasks left undone
by dual -
career couples.
One of these
couples,
by the way, has solved all the problems arising from being a
dual -
career couple by sharing one full - time position.
Purdue's Spousal Relocation Assistance Program Web site has lots of information on
dual -
career couples, including the results of an excellent study
by Twombley and Wolf - Wendell.
When highly educated,
dual -
career couples have their first child, both spouses think the baby increases their workloads
by equal amounts — but a new study suggests that's not true.
In our upcoming book, The Two Body Problem (Johns Hopkins Press), we examine the policies and practices employed
by colleges and universities that try to respond to the needs of
dual -
career couples, focusing specifically on cases in which the initial hire is a faculty member.
The parallel between the needs of
dual -
career couples and the problem as described
by physicists is striking.
Since 1980's we have seen a shift in this arrangement as
dual -
career couples attempt to reconcile their relationship and
career needs
by living apart.