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WORK LIFE BALANCE IN DUAL

CAREER COUPLE

INTRODUCTION

The term “dual-career” was frst coined in 1969! a "uro#ean academic cou#le $Ra#o#ort %

Ra#o#ort 1969 & Ra#o#ort % Ra#o#ort 19'1()

*or+ li,e alance is aout #eo#le hain. ameasure o, control oer when/ where and how the! 

wor+ 

0ain. one ,acult! memer in the ,amil! is er!

challen.in.) 0oweer/ hain. two ,acult! memers

in the ,amil! ma+es li,e een more interestin.)

Toda!s wor+ enironment inoles more and moredual career cou#les where oth #artners wor+ ,ull-

time) Dual career cou#les hae a di2erent set o,

challen.es than cou#les that are sin.le-income or

one-income dominant) Dual career ,acult! also has

the challen.e o, the tenure #rocess and adancin.

in a s!stem that is o,ten less 3e4ile than man!

industrial 5os) ometimes the dual careersituation is com#licated ecause uniersities are

located in remote areas that lac+ other career

o##ortunities outside o, the uniersit!) The +e! ,or 

dual career cou#les is to estalish a s!stem to hel#

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them alance their career and #ersonal actiities)

7or each cou#le the d!namics are .oin. to e a

little di2erent de#endin. on !our #ersonal

situation/ ,or e4am#le -- uniersit! location/ career as#irations/ !our a.e/ +ids8no +ids/ a.in. relaties/

and hoies)

O5ectie 

: To stud! wor+ li,e alance ,or Dual career ,acult!

cou#les)

: To identi,! the leel o, alance etween wor+and ,amil! li,e amon. dual career cou#les)

 : To +now the wor+ li,e im#act on dual career

cou#les)

: To o2er reliale su..estions to im#roe the

alance o, wor+ li,e amon. dual career cou#les)

Research ;ethod 

The main aim o, this research is to stud! the wor+

li,e alance o, the dual career wor+in. cou#le)

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econdar! data are collected throu.h internet and

data aailale ,rom #reious #ulications in

leadin. 5ournals) The im#ortant statistical tool

used in the research is sim#le #ercenta.e anal!sis)

Websites:

www.ifmr.ac.in

www.google.com

www.books.google.com

www.researchgate.nethttps://hbr.org

en.wikipedia.org

www.academia.edu, etc..

http://www.ifmr.ac.in/http://www.google.com/http://www.books.google.com/http://www.researchgate.net/https://hbr.org/http://www.academia.edu/http://www.google.com/http://www.books.google.com/http://www.researchgate.net/https://hbr.org/http://www.academia.edu/http://www.ifmr.ac.in/