ABSTRACT
Social relations always have a spatial form and a spatial content. (Massey 1994: 168)
During the 1990s the male partners of dual career households were elected to be President of the United States of America and Prime Ministers of Canada and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Bill Clinton, Joe Clark and Tony Blair all have partners – Hillary Clinton, Maureen McTeer and Cherie Booth – who pursue successful careers within the legal profession. Moreover in spring 2000 the problems of balancing work and home were placed centre stage when Tony Blair and Cherie Booth’s fourth child was born. Cherie Booth spoke publicly about the struggle she has in juggling home and work, and this is in a household that has the resources extensively to commodify many of the tasks of social reproduction (Momsen 1999). The three households form part of a growing minority of households, between 10-20 per cent of all couples in Britain, the USA and Canada, in which both partners are pursuing careers (Hakim 2000: 111).
