Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loved the job. No wonder, then, that Elizabeth Dole agonized long and publicly before stepping down as Secretary of Transportation last month to help her husband, Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole, in his bid for the presidency. Her quandary struck a resonant chord in men and women across the nation who increasingly confront the same dilemma: when both spouses enjoy satisfying careers, which one takes precedence...
According to Government statistics, husband-and-wife wage earners now make up 56% of American marriages. Not surprisingly, some traditional expectations are giving way to new realities. It is now the dutiful husband who may find himself resisting the prospect of following his wife's career to a new city. Women, for their part, are no longer as willing to provide unquestioning -- and unpaid -- support for their spouses' career ambitions, a once hallowed given of corporate, academic and political life. Even the military can no longer count on blind obedience from officers' wives. Indeed, two women recently complained that brass...
Wives today are willing to make sacrifices -- but only up to a point. Take Tipper Gore, for instance. Her husband, Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, is in hot pursuit of the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Still, she has not abandoned her decade-long crusade against violence in the media, an involvement that her husband has supported. Gore continues her own schedule of lectures and joins her husband on the campaign trail for perhaps three days a week. "I feel a bit of a conflict," she admits. "But so far I'm campaigning and also being true to myself...
Another long-held assumption is fading fast: that women are ever ready to pack up and travel for a husband's advancement. Now men are often doing the moving. Russ Ringl is giving up his position as vice president of human resources for Playboy in Chicago to follow his wife Karen to Los Angeles, where she has become vice president for nursing services at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan. Finding a satisfying job is proving a slow process, he says, though he remains optimistic. Still, he concedes, "if I was going to have a mid-life crisis, this...
...Reporter Mary Nissenson and her husband, Anchor-Reporter Mike Parker, have made good use of moving vans and frequent-flier discounts. Of their seven years together, they have lived in different cities for three years. For 2 1/2 years, Parker worked at a Chicago station while his wife toiled in Miami. Then Nissenson moved to New York City, where Parker joined her for a few months. He was rehired in Chicago, and she joined him. Both are ambitious, but they admit to making career sacrifices for their marriage. "Mike left a weekend anchor position in Chicago...