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Dual-Career Couples: Specific Challenges for Work-Life Integration

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Over the past 40 years, industrialized nations have experienced major changes in their labor market characteristics. Of special importance is the steady increase of women’s participation in the paid workforce. In the United States (US), 72.3% of all women aged between 25 and 54 (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009) were in employment, and 59.1% of women aged between 15 and 64 in the European Union (EU) (EUROSTAT, 2009).

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    Whereas dual-earner couples have been observed for a longer time, the novelty of DCCs pertains to the fact that both partners not only work full time but additionally they have highly demanding professional positions and both partners have high career aspirations.

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Abele, A.E., Volmer, J. (2011). Dual-Career Couples: Specific Challenges for Work-Life Integration. In: Kaiser, S., Ringlstetter, M., Eikhof, D., Pina e Cunha, M. (eds) Creating Balance?. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16199-5_10

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