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Forty to 50% of commuter couples have children, and more than 50% have been married for more than 9 years. [8] Most of commuter couples are with advanced degrees and are heavily involved in their careers. [10] The most attractive factor of a job for commuter couples is the job-education match. [11]
The term two-body problem has been used in the context of working couples since at least the mid-1990s. [1] [2] It alludes to the two-body problem in classical mechanics. More than 70 percent of academic faculty in the United States are in a relationship where both partners work, and more than a third of faculty have a partner who also works in ...
Work spouse" is a term or phrase that is mostly in American English, [1] referring to a co-worker, [2] with whom one shares a special relationship, having bonds similar to those of a marriage. Early references suggest that a work spouse may not just be a co-worker, but can also be someone in a similar field who the individual works closely with ...
The couple that banks together stays together. That's the finding of a Cornell University/University of Colorado study that found that couples who have joint bank accounts often have happier ...
In 2005, the Census Bureau reported 4.85 million cohabiting couples, up more than ten times from 1960, when there were 439,000 such couples. The 2002 National Survey of Family Growth found that more than half of all women aged 15 to 44 have lived with an unmarried partner, and that 65% of American couples who did cohabit got married within 5 years.
The "second shift" affected the couples, as they reported feelings of guilt and inadequacy, marital tension, and a lack of sexual interest and sleep. On the other hand, Hochschild shared the stories of a few men who equally shared the burden of domestic work and childcare with their wives, showing that while this scenario is uncommon, it is a ...
A paper rejecting statistics of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions as "the main source of tendentious polemics on women’s unfair burden and gender inequality", states that the idea of a double burden is a myth and concludes instead that "on average, women and men across Europe do the same total number ...
It is estimated that nearly 50% of all married couples get divorced, and about one in five marriages experience distress at some time. [citation needed] These numbers vary between countries and over time; in e.g. Germany only 35.74% ended with a divorce, half of those involving children under the age of 18.