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He's Retired, She's Working, They're Not Happy - The New York Times

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Millions of women are continuing to work after their husbands retire, creating new marriage tensions for some; 2000 census finds more than two million couples in which man 55 or over had not worked in previous year but his wife had; since 1935, when passage of Social Security Act created retirement as it is known now, issue of when to retire has largely been male one; as more women have pursued rewarding careers, retirement has grown more complicated; many working women are younger than their husbands; many deferred their careers to raise children or care for parents; many of these women are still on way up or accruing seniority for pension or retirement package at time their husbands have completed their career arcs; as 41 million women of baby boom head toward retirement age, new era of retirement increasingly includes two careers, diverging ambitions and very different ideas about what to do with decades to follow; Cornell Univ study of 534 retirement-aged men and women finds working women whose husbands are retired or disabled are least happy with their marriages; photo (M)

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