From UCI
Modern married couples must conduct some deep, detailed career discussions, early and often, if they wish to sustain their relationships, says a researcher in Irvine, who has studied dual-career duos and developed five common scenarios on how partners resolve conflicts between their jobs and lives. Those who failed to talk out their decisions bore the most regret later on as to whether primacy, primarily for income reasons, went to his or her career, whether they took turns in neutral fashion or slightly favoring one partner. If the option presents itself, her study seems to offer a slight surprise: women and men had more lucrative long-term careers if they took the second beneficial move in a relationship, rather than the first. The research also suggests to employers, who, despite their supposed accommodations for them, need to offer even more support do dual-careerists, the expert argues.
Decisions to favor one partner's career path found to carry lifelong implications
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