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In the following section, we shall study the occupation and educational backgrounds of the couples, how they experience their work and to what extent they accept their respective levels of compromise in building their personal and professional identities. We shall analyse the complex relationships involved in reconciling and integrating personal and working life. We shall attempt to determine to what extent these discrepancies lie at the root of the relationship breakdowns which, as we have seen, are relatively frequent. We shall also attempt to verify some of our initial hypotheses in our more in-depth study dealing with the following:
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A belief exists that the greater the financial or professional success, the worse the emotional life (divorce), which could be a professional restriction.
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It is not that women are less ambitious than men — they have simply lowered their expectations in an effort to seek conciliation.
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Kaufmann, A.E. (2011). Dilemmas in Transition to Top Management. In: Changing Female Identities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230348585_4
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