Never mind preparing for a move to who-knows-where. That's scary enough to unsettle even the most hard-boiled scientist-in-waiting, or the academically acclaimed professor. But hold on, there's more. Your husband needs a job, too.
It's the two-body problem, and it's no fun.
It's certainly not a new problem (E. Culotta, The Scientist, 5[19]:19, Sept. 30, 1991), and it isn't uncommon. But as the antinepotism laws that can prevent employers from hiring members of the same family are taken off the books in many states--and as employers become more sensitive to their employees' needs--the prospects for two-career couples continue to improve. "Universities are becoming very aware that so many people that they're hiring nowadays have a spouse that is an academic also. They meet in graduate school and many times they are in the same field," says Jaleh Daie, the founder and president of the Women in Science and Technology Alliance, ...
