Two Academic Careers and One Fulfilling Job

By ELISABETH and LEWIS PERRY

The two-career academic couple presents a persistently difficult challenge: what to do about hiring spouses. Recently, the conundrum has surfaced regularly in the news. Some of the cases have affected people we know, others have not. But many of the stories share the same themes:

A professor threatens to leave an institution unless a job is created for his spouse. The administration refuses. The professor stays but makes it clear that he will raise the