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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
At the very top of the pay scale it usually pays for one partner to focus on work while the other handles all non-work family duties, for the reasons you cite. It’s pretty rare for a top executive with a family to have a spouse who works - they need someone to tend the home fires so they can dedicate themselves 100 per cent to their careers.
This is a big reason for the gender disparity in the top echelons of business. It’s far more common for a male executive climbing the org chart to have a partner dedicated to handling all domestic matters.
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Absolutely - although there are some instances of spouses in this city both being in high executive roles. Many of them are second marriages with kids out of the nest.