Couples that pursue their individual careers and actively support each others career

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Academic dual-career couples deal with issues related to career equity, competition and collaboration, and tenure within their marriages and jobs. This article reviews research and presents personal reflections from a dual-career academic couple.

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Dual-Careerism and the Conjoint-Career Couple

Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler, Constance R. Ahrons, Morton S. Perlmutter, William G. Staples and Carol A. B. Warren

The American Sociologist

Vol. 20, No. 3 (Fall, 1989)

, pp. 207-226 (20 pages)

Published By: Springer

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27698472

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This article introduces and defines the concept of conjoint-career couples, marital partners that work in the same field or profession. Drawing on the narratives of three couples with structurally varied experiences (older man/younger woman, older woman/younger man, peers), we describe and analyze some of the problems and issues confronting a growing number of academics in the current labor pool. We conclude by discussing some of the overarching patterns common to this situation and the advantages and disadvantages associated with it. Finally, we propose a variety of social policies which academic institutions may want to consider to help meet the challenge of these changing market demographics.

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The American Sociologist publishes papers, comments, and other writings on topics of professional and disciplinary concern to sociologists. The contents examine intellectual, practical, and ethical issues affecting the work, careers, and perspectives of sociologists. In addition, the journal encourages research and reporting on ways in which sociological knowledge and skill relate to issues of broad public concern, past, present, and future. Topics in The American Sociologist include the uses of sociology in academic and nonacademic settings; training, placement, and career paths of sociologists; structural and ideological dimensions affecting the development of new perspectives in the discipline; the ethics of research, teaching, and practice; the application of sociological knowledge and methods in practical problems; the historical and interdisciplinary roots of sociological knowledge; and the contributions of sociologists to professional and public issues.

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