The Clayman Institute for Gender Research

Meeting the needs and expectations of dual-career academic couples - while still ensuring the high quality of university faculty - is one of the great challenges facing universities. Academic couples (those with both partners working in an academic environment) comprise 36 percent of the American professoriate - representing a deep pool of talent. Yet, dual-career academic hiring often remains difficult and controversial.

The Clayman Institute's Dual-Career Academic Couples program includes resources for administrators and for faculty and graduate students interested in negotiating a dual-career life.

In August 2008, the Clayman Institute published a national study, Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know. The study surveyed 30,000 faculty at 13 of the nation's leading public and private research universities. The report reviews practices, policies and programs for administrators to successfully work with the hiring and retaining of dual-career academic couples.