Couples That Work

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Simmering resentments over whose career comes first. Bickering over household tasks. Arguments over who should pick up the kids this time. This is the portrait of two-career coupledom in much of the popular media. But for a lot of couples, the reality is much rosier. Mutually supportive relationships let us take career risks, help us be more resilient to setbacks, and even “lean in” at work. In this episode, we talk with three experts to help us paint a picture of what a truly supportive dual-career relationship looks like, and understand how to get our own relationships closer to that ideal. Guests: Jennifer Petriglieri, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, and Stephanie Coontz. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network. For links to the articles mentioned in this episode, as well as other information about the show, visit hbr.org/podcasts/women-at-work.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a difference in the world.
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0:13.0	Learn more at HBS. Me slash work.
0:17.0	That's HBS.
0:18.0	M.E slash work.
0:23.0	You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
0:29.0	I'm Sarah Green Carmichael Executive Editor.
0:35.2	I'm Nicole Torres, Associate Editor.
0:37.6	Our co-host Amy Bernstein was away at the World Economic Forum
0:40.8	while we taped a lot of this episode, but you'll hear from her a little
0:44.2	later in the show.
0:46.0	This episode is about the support that women get or don't get from their spouses, partners,
0:51.6	and significant others.
0:53.0	Because the people we love have a big impact on us professionally.
0:56.5	One study of dual career couples found that people put more time in at work
1:00.2	when their intimate relationships are going well. And another study found that people were more successful
1:05.0	when their partner tested high and conscientiousness.
1:07.0	And then there's the one that found that while high-achieving women
1:10.0	are obviously happy to get emotional support from their partners.
1:14.3	What really makes the marriage stable is getting material help, laundry, errands, caring for children
1:19.9	and aging parents.
1:20.9	But Jennifer Petriaglieri, a professor in Inciad, has a nuanced take on that.
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