ABSTRACT
In this book I have focused on a privileged group of households, dual career households, who are currently working in Canada, the USA and the UK, drawing on the personal and household biographies augmented by published statistics. While within migration studies there has been a plea for the use of a biographical approach (Halfacree and Boyle 1993), there is also a debate as to whether couples should be interviewed together or separately (Valentine 1999). We deliberately chose to interview couples separately in order to gain two perspectives on their lives together (Pahl 1989) as well as identifying sources of conflict and negotiation in gender role identities and divisions of labour beyond the ‘milestone’ events such as marriage and childbirth. In many instances the accounts of their lives together were told in very different ways.
