The professional pair: Husband and wife psychologists.

Abstract

Fifteen anonymous respondents indicated that they had been unable to complete the questionnaire because of the conflicts it had stimulated. In addition, there were some confessions of minor fraud in claiming Husband-Wife credit (e.g., by couples who were living together). Therefore, the total available sample size cannot be estimated accurately.

Dual-career couples: Conflicts and treatment

“…Pleck (1978) noticed that husbands can accept their wives' employment as long as it does not compete with their own career in prestige, earnings or demand for commitment. Similarly Bryson et al, (1976) noticed that many professional women compare themselves to their husbands. Although the wife achieves more than most other women, she feels she achieves less than her most salient comparison, her husband.…”

Dual‐Career Families: Terminology, Typologies, and Work and Family Issues

“…Possible disadvantages to the couple included the department's effect on the couple's decisions and behavior, the couple's personal competition and jealousy, the couple's inability to maintain separate identities, and the couple's social problems with others. Bryson, Bryson, Licht, and Licht (1976) surveyed professional couples in the same discipline, psychology. Of the couples, 46% reported one or more encounters with anti-nepotism policies that affected the wife's career.…”

Preschoolers' Sex-Role Identity, Father-Role Perceptions, and Paternal Family Participation

“…Some studies report small increases (such as 10-12%) in husband participation when the wife is employed (Blood and Wolfe, 1960;Perrucci et al, 1978;Robinson, 1977). However, other studies have failed to report noteworthy increases in husband participation in response to maternal employment (Bryson et al, 1976;Stafford et al, 1977;Walker and Woods, 1976). But there is agreement that even if the husband does increase participation in response to employment of the wife, the increase is almost negligible, the participation tends to be confined to domains traditionally defined as male, and the wife is left to perform the majority of housekeeping tasks.…”