It's about Time: Couples and Careers

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Overwork and the Persistence of Gender Segregation in Occupations (2013, background): “Combined with the normative conception of ideal motherhood, the male breadwinning ideology leads many dual-earner couples to resolve work–family conflicts by prioritizing the man’s career even when the woman earns as much income as he does (Becker and Moen 1999; Pixley and Moen 2003).”
When Does Social Capital Matter? Non-Searching For Jobs Across the Life Course (2006, background): “Women are more likely than men to experience work career instability (Williams and Han 2003), leading to a deficit in their social resources (Campbell 1988, Ensel 1979, Moore 1990).”
Putting work and family experiences in context: Differences by family life stage (2010, background): “Workers who were parents of school-age children reported lower work–family conflict than workers of comparable ages who did not have children (Roehling et al., 2003).”