When both members of a couple are focusedon their careers, their personal and professionallives can become deeply intertwined. That creates unique challenges andadvantages as well. | page 040
How Dual-Career Couples Make It Work
Jennifer Petriglieri | page 050
In her study of more than 100
couples around the globe, the author foundthat dual-career couples tend to go through three transitions when they areparticularly vulnerable: when they first learn to work together as a couple;when they go through a midcareer or a midlife reinvention; and as they reachthe final stages of their careers. Those who communicate at each transitionabout deeper work and personal issues such as values, boundaries, and fearshave a better chance of emerging stronger from each one, fulfilled both intheir relationships and in their careers.
OneCouple¡¯s Perspective
page 059
Tamar Dane Dor-Ner, amanaging partner at Bain, and her husband, Dan Krockmalnic, general counsel forthe Boston Globe, talk in a Q&A with HBR editors about how they supporteach other, how they divide child care and other domestic responsibilities, thebenefits each realizes from the other¡¯s job, and what challenges the futuremight hold.
TheSpouse Factor
Jane Stevenson | page 061
When the author, a professional recruiter with KornFerry, speaks with candidates about potential job opportunities, one of thefirst questions she asks is whether there¡¯s anything in their family situationthat she should know about¡ªmeaning, Will the family make a candidate reluctantto relocate for a new job? Here she describes how candidates¡¯ spouses who havetheir own demanding careers can be a factor in job searches, how she approachesthis challenge, and how she has managed the trade-offs in her own dual-careermarriage.
LivingApart for Work
A conversation with Danielle Lindemann | page 064
In an interview with HBR executive editor AniaWieckowski, Lindemann, a sociologist at Lehigh University and the author ofCommuter Spouses, describes the lifestyles of ¡°commuter couples¡± who chooseto live apart to further their careers. She highlights the factors that go intomaking that choice and some ways that couples deal with their separation: howthey stay in touch, manage conflict, and reunite after time apart. She alsodiscusses the personal as well as professional benefits of their livingsituation.