March 3, 2000

Childless Couples in Same Workplace Said to Have Higher Stress

By LILA GUTERMAN

Childless couples who work for the same employer experience higher levels of stress and have less-egalitarian marriages than do either co-working couples with children or childless spouses who work for separate employers, according to a new study. "There's no buffer between work and home for these couples," Phyllis Moen, a sociologist at Cornell University, said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting last week.

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