Employment for Spouses Gets Harder to Find

By AUDREY WILLIAMS JUNE

Last summer, Chidori Boeheim and her husband, Chuck, had a quintessential dual-career moment.

Mr. Boeheim, who at the time was assistant director of computing at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, in California, had just received an offer for a better job from Cornell University, in upstate New York.

Ms. Boeheim, with about 15 years of experience in business development for high-tech companies, was happy about her husband's opportunity. But she remembers thinking: "What