Double income couples in India are indeed leading a bitter-sweet life - one in three such couples believe that divergent opinion due to two careers raises divorce chances, but a majority of over eight in ten are still satisfied with their work-family balance. According to a survey conducted by global research firm Synovate for the country’s leading staffing firm TeamLease Services, the overall satisfaction level of married working couples is as high as 87 per cent across India.At the same time, the survey found that 34 per cent of the couples felt that two careers “substantially increase the chances of a difference of opinion leading to divorce.” While those seeing higher chances of divorce due to both partners being in jobs were still in a minority, a majority of 63 per cent agreed that fights were common on issues like quality time and work travel in such families. Delhi emerged as the only exception where only about 56 per cent respondents disagreed about fights being common in the double-income families. The survey was conducted on working corporate executives married with or without kids across five cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, and Hyderabad.
