Equal Partners?

"Jaclyn Wong uses compelling interviews in Equal Partners? to highlight the challenges of creating a more equal relationship and encourages us to reflect on the lessons we can take away from those who have been the most successful in this endeavor."⎯Amanda Jayne Miller, coauthor of Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships "Wong's use of the work-family ecosystem as a frame allows her to investigate both structure and agency in the couples' choices in a way that has rarely been done in sociological work-family studies. Equal Partners? makes an outstanding contribution using novel data collection. An original and compelling insight into dual-earning professional couples."⎯Sarah Damaske, author of The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America "Through illuminating interviews with dual-career couples, Wong's timely work reveals the many moving pieces that need to align for partners to turn their egalitarian goals into a reality. Emphasizing the need for broad-scale structural and cultural changes combined with partner-level joint action, this must-read sheds new light on the meaning of equality and the future of the gender revolution."⎯Ellen Lamont, author of The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date