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Research Studies

Dual Career Couples: What Universities Need to Know. Londa Schiebinger, Andrea Davis Henderson, and Shannon K. Gilmartin. Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Stanford University. 2008

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

A Couple of Worries
The Dual Career Divorce
A Dual Search Falters
The Endless Tradeoffs of an Academic Marriage
Flying Lovers and Ugly Glasses
Going Overseas to Solve our Two Body Problem
How to Cope on the Market as an Academic Partner
Is Your Spouse Hurting Your Career?
Job Sharing on the Tenure Track
Lessons of a Dual Hire
The Perfect Offer
The Secrets of Our Success
Too Many Couples
The Trailing Spouse Track
Two Academic Careers and One Fulfilling Job
Two Can Make it Too
Two Men and a Teenager: Considerations of a Same-Sex Couple
Was It a Mistake to Apply as a Couple?

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Other Online Articles

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

Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Higher Education Dual Career Network
National Higher Education Recruitment Consortium

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Conferences

Higher Education Dual Career Network Annual Conference

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Programs at Colleges and Universities

Carleton University
Central Michigan University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Indiana University
Iowa State University
Johns Hopkins University
Kansas State University
Michigan Technological University
Northern Arizona University
Ohio University
Ohio State University
Penn State University
Texas A&M University
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Florida
University of Illinois
University of Iowa
University of Kentucky
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Nebraska Kearney
University of Northern Iowa
University of Notre Dame
University of Saskatchewan
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Victoria
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Utah State University
Virginia Tech
West Virginia University

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Blogs

Dual-Careers in Academia

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Prepared by the National HERC

Contact: Nancy Aebersold, Director nancy@nationalherc.org www.nationalherc.org