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Posting résumés online:
Exercise some caution

NEW YORK — Prospective employers may not be only ones eyeing your online résumé. Identity thieves and other unsavory characters may want to download your personal and professional data.

To keep your online résumé from doing any unwanted damage to you or your credit, you need to understand the risks and how to mitigate them. JobKite.com, a job posting Web site, offers these tips:

UPrivacy concerns: Make sure the Web site has a privacy policy so you know how the company will handle your personal data and credit card information.

ULimit information: No legitimate employer needs your Social Security number, bank account numbers, mother’s maiden name or any other identifying information.

UPost smart: Don’t post your résumé on every site. Instead, seek out sites that are relevant to your career path and are well known.

Study finds couples go
with traditional in roles

NEW YORK — It’s often said that money is power. When it comes to love, however, cash doesn’t necessarily equal control.

A five-year study of dual-income households in the United States, Spain and Sweden has found that couples often defer to traditional gender roles rather than negotiate breadwinning and domestic duties. Women who work outside the home still do most of the laundry, cooking and other chores at home — an arrangement that’s challenged often only when a crisis arises, such as marriage counseling or bankruptcy, researchers discovered.

When the couples were asked how they reached their arrangements, researchers were greeted with blanks looks and explanations that “it just happened that way,” said study co-author Janet Stocks, a sociology professor at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.

Even when women earn more, they fear emasculating their mates and overcompensate by doing more work at home, she said.

Associated Press