Shockingly, Academic Wives Get Short ShriftS  Research into the
blissful lives of the mind that married academic couples are
surely leading has discovered that women are more likely to
subvert the importance of their careers to their husbands'
careers. Meanwhile, men in dual-career academic relationships
were steadfastly self-aggrandizing.  A Stanford University
survey of 30,000 professors and researchers at 13 major
universities found that, while 50 percent of academic husbands
believe their careers are top priority, only 20 percent of
academic wives were similarly self-important about their own
work. Even though, according to the researchers, academic
couples are more "equitable" in the career values than couples
camped in emotional squalor at the base of the Ivory Tower, the
tendency for men to overestimate the importance of their work
remains an annoyingly persistent phenomenon.  The survey shows
that 36 percent of tenure-track academics are married to another
academic researcher. Another 36 percent are m