PAWcast: Sociologist Danielle Lindemann ’02 on Commuter Spouses (July 2019)

Inspired in part by personal experience, sociologist Danielle Lindemann ’02 studied the growing phenomenon of “commuter spouses” — couples who choose to live apart to enable both partners to pursue their career goals. In an interview with PAW’s Carrie Compton, Lindemann explains that the couples she spoke with for her book, Commuter Spouses: New Families in a Changing World, chose this lifestyle out of professional necessity, not for purely financial reasons. She also discusses what’s changed (and what hasn’t) in how we think about gender roles and how, paradoxically, high levels of education may tend to limit one’s professional choices. For a transcript of this podcast, visit https://paw.princeton.edu/podcast/pawcast-sociologist-danielle-lindemann-02-commuter-spouses (Photo: Cyndi Shattuck Photography)