Dual Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know

 

In 2008 the Clayman Institute published a report based on surveys of over 9,000 full-time faculty at thirteen premier research universities in the U.S., including the Univesrity of Virginia.

Report on results from the University of Virginia

 

Books

Academic Couples: Problems and Promises. edited by M.A. Ferber and J.W. Loeb University of Illinois Press, Urbana: 1997. (This book is available at Alderman Library; the call number is LB1778.45 .A33 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. (This book is available at Alderman Library; the call number is HQ536 .B432 2005.)

 

Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All, by Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober. New York: Bantam Dell: 2009. (This book is not available through the U.Va. library system, but the Jefferson Madison Regional Library owns a copy. The call number is 306.872 Meers.)

 

Articles

How to Cope with the Market as an Academic Couple (Chronicle of Higher Education)

The A - Z of Dual Career Couples (Chronicle of Higher Education)

The Secrets of Our Success? (Chronicle of Higher Education)

2 People, 1 Job, 36 Years (Inside Higher Ed) A different take on what it means to be a dual career couple

Whose Job Is It, Anyway? (Chronicle of Higher Education) The age-old prejudice against nonacademic careers for Ph.D.s