The number of dual-career couples with children is growing fast. These couples face various challenging problems of organizing their lifes, in particular connected with childcare and time-management. As a typical example we study one of the difficult decision problems of a dual career couple from the point of view of operations research with a particular focus on gender equality, namely the loc...

Despite negative media images and social dynamics insensitive to the lives of many dual-career couples, research shows that these families are largely healthy and thriving. In this study, we investigated the adaptive strategies of middle-class, dual-earner couples (N = 47) with children that are successfully managing family and work. Guided by grounded-theory methodology, analysis of interview ...

worse mothers, better mothers, inevitably feel 'guilty' and (the least questioned myth of all) have undergone a moment of conscious choice when they 'decided' to work. To all these 'young wives' tales' Dual Career Families makes a refreshing antidote, since it is as a pragmatic, unprejudiced and as little inclined to generalise as are the couples it is studying. Essentially, in spite of some ho...