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- Title
COMPETING DESIRES: How Young Adult Couples Negotiate Moving for Career Opportunities.
- Authors
WONG, JACLYN S.
- Abstract
Family migration often disadvantages women's careers. Yet, we know little about the decision-making processes that lead to such outcomes. To address this gap, I conducted a longitudinal interview study of 21 heterosexual young adult couples who were deciding whether to move for early career opportunities. Analyzing 118 interviews, I detail how partners negotiate their desired work and family arrangements given structural and cultural constraints. On one negotiation trajectory, partners maintained their egalitarian desires by performing practical labor to make equal work-family arrangements. On another pathway, couples changed their desires by doing emotion work to justify neotraditional roles. On the last pathway, men deferred to women's desires, unintentionally leaving women the emotional and practical work of coordinating two careers and the couple's life. These pathways show how couples contest and reproduce gendered work and family roles during the stalled gender revolution.
- Subjects
COUPLES; PSYCHOLOGY of couples; SCHEMAS (Psychology); EMPLOYMENT
- Publication
Gender & Society, 2017, Vol 31, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0891-2432
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0891243217695520