He Works / She Works: Successful Strategies for Working Couples

The Carters are management consultants who write about the hardships of working couples from professional and personal experience. In the first section of their book, they examine work-related issues from both female and male perspectives with balance and insight. In the second section, the authors employ management strategies to establish a ""working couple plan."" Among their recommendations are the creation of a ""situational analysis"" that involves identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. They prescribe a systematic and organized approach to dealing with the often chaotic circumstances endured by working couples. The final section covers negotiating for flextime and job sharing; dealing with commuting, traveling, and relocation; and balancing work and family responsibilities. New and veteran working couples, along with management personnel, will find this work readable and instructive.--Alan Farber, Northern Illinois Univ., Dekalb