“This town ain’t big enough for the both of us”:Two Engineering Educator Careers, One Department

摘要

Demands and stresses on a dual-career couple can be great. When the couple works in the samedepartment, it starts to become difficult to separate professional and person life. Each dual-careercouple must work out their own arrangements for dealing with communication, confidentiality,and emotional support. However, each person in the couple must strive from the first day tomaintain a separate professional identity and manage the inevitable conflicts of interest that willarise when two people work in such close proximity to each other. The authors share someexperiences and advice on dealing with dual careers within the same department.