Corporations that shuffle male executives from city to city are running into stiff resistance from the two-career family. Sometimes the wife of an employee being transferred is unwilling to give up her rewarding job. In other cases, the couple fears that it will be forced to scale back a two-paycheck life-style because the wife may be unable to find comparable work in the new city.
Executive relocation services, which in the past have concentrated on finding new homes for employees on the move, are now looking for ways to deal with the two-career dilemma. New Horizons Corp. of Stamford, Conn., has...