Problems of Professional Couples: A Content Analysis

Abstract

In an eftbrt to determine reasons for differential scientific productivity between similarly trained husband and wife professional pairs, responses by 200 psychologist couples to a survey question asking them to delineate problem areas were content analyzed. Although sexual discrimination accounted for a small portion of the problems, the larger number of problems cited by subjects were due to the fact that women were willing to place their careers secondary to (a) the needs qf their families and (b) the needs of their husband's careers.