The Two-Body Problem: Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Practices in Higher Education

by Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Susan B. Twombly, Suzanne Rice

Approximately eight of every ten academics have spouses or partners who are working professionals, and almost half of these partners are academics as well. In fact, dual-career academic couples are so prevalent that the two-body problem has become a common way of referring to the situation. Increasingly, intense competition to hire the best faculty forces institutions to assist dual-career couples in finding suitable employment for the accompanying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801874513
• ISBN13: 9780801874512
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"