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Equal Partners?

How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions
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Equal Partners? examines whether young professionals can achieve truly egalitarian partnerships where both partners share paid work and unpaid domestic duties. Jaclyn S. Wong draws on six years of interviews with 21 different-gender couples to reveal how supportive workplaces, gender-egalitarian attitudes, and coordinated actions all contribute to realising equality in work and family life. The book offers an insightful study of couples navigating the challenges of combining career ambition with family responsibilities.
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Ideal for readers interested in gender studies, sociology, workplace culture, family dynamics, and contemporary social change.

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Many young professionals seek egalitarian partnerships in which both partners work for pay and share unpaid housework and childcare. Yet working couples' realities often deviate from this ideal, with women trading off employment for family care. Will contemporary young adults repeat this pattern, or will they come closer to achieving equality in work and family? Equal Partners? seeks to explore this question.

Drawing on six years of interviews with the partners in twenty-one different-gender couples, Jaclyn S. Wong documents how supportive workplaces, partners' steadfast gender-egalitarian attitudes, and partners' jointly coordinated actions all need to come together for couples to experience gender equality in work and family. This book offers a compelling study of the dynamics of couples in ambitious partnerships who aspire to equality as they navigate the external pressures that come with life planning.

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Social Forces calls it a "must-read" for anyone interested in understanding if and why changes towards equality in partnerships are happening, recommending it to researchers, policymakers, students, and the public.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520384569

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 April 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 8 tables

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Jaclyn S. Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of South Carolina.

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