Episode 177: Couples That Work

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Books and articles offer career advice or relationship advice. They rarely consider the link between the two. Yet dual-career couples are everywhere, and anyone who's part of one knows your careers can only run in parallel for so long At some point, life is going to get complicated - and not only if you have kids. So how do you make it work?

INSEAD professor Jennifer Petriglieri, author of Couples That Work, has spent years researching working couples and learning from their experiences. In this episode we talk about the three transitions couples go through over the decades, and what her research (and her own career and home life) have taught her about the roadblocks couples face, and how to navigate them.

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0:45.1	I'm Ashley Miltight.
0:47.5	This time, dual career couples are the norm in many parts of the world.
0:53.1	But most books and articles offer career advice
0:56.0	or relationship advice, but they ignore the link between the two. My guest today has studied
1:02.9	that link, looking at what works, what doesn't, and the underlying expectations couples have
1:09.0	for each other. So let's imagine your partner's working really hard. You might even say they're overworking.
1:15.6	And on the surface, you may want them to stop, right? But imagine they just come home one day, I've resigned.
1:21.6	That's probably going to be incredibly anxiety provoking for you, even if you've been begging them to slow down their work.
1:29.4	Couples that work. Coming up on the broad experience.
1:41.9	I've always thought of this show as being about the invisible currents that run beneath working women's lives.
1:48.9	This episode focuses on the currents beneath working couples' lives, and there is a lot going on under the surface.
1:58.3	Jennifer Petrolieri is one half of a dual career couple. She's a professor of organizational
2:03.9	behavior at Inciad, the International Business School based outside Paris. She's also the author of
2:10.5	the book Couples That Work, How Dual Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work. Jennifer has spent years researching this topic. She interviewed
2:21.1	more than a hundred working couples all over the world, and many of their stories make it into
2:26.1	the book. Some are in their 20s, some in their 60s, and all ages in between. Her purpose, finding out what works over the long term for couples with
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