Abstract
Career professionals expect some kind of reward for their hard work. This varies among individuals but typically takes the form of status, money, autonomy, or a sense of having made an impact or difference. Each partner in the dual-career couple has a particular definition of success, which often includes a personal or societally imposed timetable for where each should be when. But women and men choosing careers today do so from vastly dissimilar historical and sociological perspectives. Men have always pursued careers. In contrast, for women, having a professional life represents a recent and dramatic broadening of options for personal fulfillment.
Would anybody ever write: “John Jones is both an entrepreneur and a father”?
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Garry Trudeau, “Doonesbury,” The Austin-American Statesman (January 28, 1987 ). Copyright 1987 G. B. Trudeau. Reprinted with permission of Universal Press Syndicate. All rights reserved.
Lucia A. Gilbert, Men in Dual-Career Families ( Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1985 ), pp. 22–46.
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For further information contact: WAGES, Institute for Research on Women’s Health, 1616 18th Street NW, #114, Washington, D.C. 20009.
Gordon Mott, “Following a Wife’s Move,” The New York Times Magazine (April 14, 1985), p. 58.
Lucia A. Gilbert, Men in Dual-Career Families ( Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1985 ), pp. 105–115.
H. M. Azkins, The New Yorker cartoon (June 14, 1982 ), p. 53.
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Gilbert, L.A. (1988). Two Careers in the Same Family: The Career Side. In: Sharing it all. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2792-7_6
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