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Dual-Career Websites

Dual Career Couples and the Job Search: Tips from the University of Michigan
Stephanie’s Job Search Resources: Tips from My Own Experience
Report on the Dual Career Couple Survey
Dual-Science Career Couples
ScienceCareers.org Dual-Career Resources

Online Articles on Dual-Career couples from the
Chronicle of Higher Education

Career Talk: What to do About the Two-Body Problem
A Couple of Worries
The Dual-Career Divorce
A Dual Search Falters
The Endless Trade-offs of an Academic Marriage
Flying Lovers and Ugly Glasses
Gay, Christian, and Conservative
Going Over Seas to Solve Our Two-Body Problem
How to Cope on the Market as an Academic Couple
Is Your Spouse Hurting Your Career?
Job Sharing on the Tenure Track
The Secrets of Our Success?
The Perfect Offer
Too Many Couples
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?
When Officemates are also Roommates
Whose Career Should Be No. 2?

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Additional Online Articles on Dual-Career Couples

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

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, 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.

Solving the Two-Body Problem, by Anurag Agrawal and Jennifer Thaler, Science Careers Forum, March 7, 2003.

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.

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Books and Articles

Academic Couples: Problems and Promises edited by M.A. Ferber and J.W. Loeb. University of Illinois Press, Urbana: 1997.

Being Together, Working Apart: Dual Career Families and the Work-Life Balance edited by Barbara Schneider and Linda J. Waite. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2005.

"Challenges for Higher Education Couples in Commuter Marriages: Insights for Couples and Counselors Who Work With Them" by Sandy Magnuson. Family Journal Vol 7 Issue 2 1999 p.125.

"Dual Career Couples: Keeping Them Together" by Lisa Wolf- Wendel, Susan B. Twombly, and Suzanne Rice. The Journal of Higher Education Vol. 71, No. 3 May, 2000 pp. 291-321.

Getting an Academic Job: Strategies for Success by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and Marcia Lynn Whicker. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1997. See Chapter 5, "Dual-Careers, Senior and Nonacademic Jobs."

Lesbian Academic Couples edited by Michelle Gibson and Deborah T. Meem. Harrington Park Press, New York: 2005.

The Two Body Problem: Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Policies in Higher Education by Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Susan B. Twombly, and Suzanne Rice. Johns Hopkins, Baltimore: 2004.

"Weary of Commuter Marriages, More Couples in Academe Make Career Sacrifices to be Together" by Robin Wilson. The Chronicle of Higher Education 20 Sept.1996 A10-11.

Work Won't Love You Back: the Dual Career Couple's Survival Guide by Stevan E. Hobfoll and Ivonne H. Hobfoll. Freeman, New York: 1994.

Working Equal: Collaboration among Academic Couples by Elizabeth G Creamer. Garland, New York: 2000.

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