Dual Carrer Couples And Parent Employees

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DUAL CAREER COUPLES AND PARENT EMPLOYEES Dual career couple is common phenomena in westernised industrial nations where spouses have their independent careers based on their educational status. Before 1960’s males play the role of bread earner and take career of all needs of family alone and female takes care of children while being stayed at home. But during industrialisation there are certain changes in society of which development of dual career couples and parent employees is one of the major changes. The changes involves increased participation of women in economy activities, women liberation and education have altered the social structure of society forever. The dual career couple was not in the society but received attention after 1976 in human resource management in extensive research done by Rapoport and Rapoport. In their first study they have divided dual career couples in four types:- * Familistic are couples with more family oriented approach. * Careerist couples laid more stress to careers. * Conventional couples laid more stress on career on male in comparison to female career. * Coordinate couples, men are equally involved in household activites sharing shoulders with women. The dual career couples can be of following kinds based upon their nature of careers:- * When both the partners and spouses are in same career and working in same organisation. For example: wife and husband both are accounts for same organisation. * When both the partners are in different careers and working in same organisation. For example: husband working as accountant and wife as lawyer for same organisation. * When both the partners are in different careers and organisation. There are certain benefits of dual earner couples as follows:- * Being a dual earner couples gives both the spouses freedom to switch their jobs easily because other
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