Build your careers, your family, and your life—together.
When you're part of a two-career family, you manage the competing demands of your careers, child-rearing, and household chores along with your relationship with each other. Can you both chase your dreams, raise good citizens, make time for your hobbies and your health—and maintain a strong relationship?
Two-Career Families provides the expert advice and practical solutions you need to address the challenges you face as working-parent partners, from negotiating responsibilities at home to making career decisions to supporting each other's growth.
You'll learn to:
- Build and maintain a team mindset
- Tackle daily demands while tracking long-term goals
- Make fair trade-offs
- Deal with crises and setbacks
- Balance it all—or most of it
The HBR Working Parents Series provides support as you anticipate challenges, learn how to advocate for yourself more effectively, juggle your impossible schedule, and find fulfillment at home and at work. Whether you're up with a newborn or planning the future with your teen, you'll find the practical tips, strategies, and research you need to make working parenthood work for you.
| Introduction: Two for the Road Charting your life and careers, together |
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Section 1 Go Team!: Define Your Values and Create a Shared Vision |
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1 How Dual-Career Couples Make It Work |
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2 Understanding and Communicating Your Core Values as a Working Parent |
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3 Dual-Career Couples and Identity |
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Section 2 Tick Tock: Make Schedules, Goals, and Trade-offs |
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4 Finding Balance as a Dual-Career Couple Optimize your time and energy--together |
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5 Setting Goals as a Family A different type of family planning |
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6 Navigating Trade-offs in a Dual-Career Family |
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7 Can You Actually Afford to Change Your Career? |
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Section 3 Away We Go!: Live Elsewhere for Your Job |
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8 How to Decide Whether to Relocate for a Job |
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9 Making Your Expat Assignment Easier on Your Family |
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Section 4 There Is an "I" in Team: Take Care of Yourself |
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11 Make Time for "Me Time" |
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12 How to Communicate Your Self-Care Needs to Your Partner |
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13 How Working Parents Can Prioritize Sleep |
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Section 5 In Sickness and in Health: Take Care of Each Other |
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14 How to Not Fight with Your Spouse When You Get Home from Work |
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15 How to Help Your Partner Cope with Work Stress |
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16 How to Support Your Partner During a Career Setback |
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Epilogue: The Greatest Adventure |
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17 Teamwork Makes the Dream Work |
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Contributed by 19 HBR readers |
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| About the Contributors |
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Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 12 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
Daisy Dowling, Series Editor, is founder and CEO of Workparent, the executive coaching and training firm, and the author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021). She is a full-time working parent to two young children. She can be reached at workparent.com.
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