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DUAL CAREER RESOURCES

This page is designed to provide resources for dual career couples. You will find links to articles about the dual career dilemma as well as links to resources for dual career couples and job placement tips.

Articles on dual career couples from the Chronicle of Higher Education

A couple of worries

A dual search falters

What to do about the two body problems

Flying lovers and ugly glasses

Gay, Christian and Conservative

How to Cope on the Market as an Academic Couple

Job Sharing on the Tenure Track

The Dual-Career Divorce

The Endless Trade-offs of an Academic Marriage

The Perfect Offer

The Trailing Spouse Track

Two can make it, too

Two Men and a Teenager: Career Considerations of a Same-Sex Couple

Was It a Mistake to Apply as a Couple?

Whose Career Should Be No. 2?

 

Additional on-line articles on dual career couples

 

Academic Couples (Canadian) by Harriet Eisenkraft University Affairs.ca 2004.

Dual Career Academic Couples Panel at Rackham Graduate School University of Michigan.

Dual Career Couples by Etienne S. Benson in GradPsych Volume 4, Number 1, January 2006.

Dual Career Scientific Couples: Relocating Both of You by David Jensen ScienceCareers.Org.

Love and the Two Body Problem by Valerie Jamieson in PhysicsWeb.org October 2001.

Love In (and Out of) Academe by Shari Wilson Inside Higher Ed.com 2005.

Meeting the Needs of Dual Career Couples in Academia by Michelle Fleig-Palmer. CUPA-HR Journal v. 54 no3 Fall/Winter 2003 p. 12-15.

Strange Bedfellows: Does Academic Life Lead to Divorce? by Christina Boufis, Salon Magazine, March 24, 1999.

Two Academic Careers and One Fulfilling Job by Elisabeth and Lewis Perry The Chronicle Review March 17, 2000.

Quintessential Careers: Q&A with Michelle Fleig-Palmer in QuintZine at www.quintcareers.com