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

Jaclyn S. Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of South Carolina.