Stanford's report on dual career academic couples

(The present post is similar to this earlier post.)

Stanford University has put out an interesting (98 page) document on dual-career academic couples.  The full report can be found here.  The survey was of 9043 full-time faculty at 13 research universities.   

Some of the more interesting results, at least to me, are as follows:

General statistics

Ÿ         36% of academics have an academic spouse; this is the same percentage as those with a working, non-academic spouse

Ÿ         the percentage of female academics with an academic spouse is 40%; the percentage of male academics with an academic spouse is 34%

Ÿ         woman academics are more likely to be single than their male counterparts (21% vs 10%)

Ÿ         minority academics are more likely to be single than their non-minority counterparts (25% vs. 13%)

Dual Hires

Ÿ         10% of faculty hires are part of dual hires

Ÿ         being part of a dual hires is almost twice as likely for female faculty as for male faculty (13% vs. 7%)

Ÿ         one is more than twice as likely to be part of a dual hire if one is a full or endowed professor than if one is either an associate or assistant professor

Ÿ         the frequency of dual hires is increasing:  3% of all hires in 1970s were dual hires; 7% in 1980s; 9% in 1990s: 13% in 2000s

Ÿ         73% of dual hires have degree in same field