VINCENT P. AUBRUN: BREADWINNER, FOR NOW
AGE
41
FAMILY
Wife at home; three children
JOB
Technology director, Summit Systems Inc., New York
HOW THINGS WORK
Aubrun and his wife, Patricia Godoy, consider themselves progressive on family issues. Yet they admit their marriage has turned traditional. They share cooking and shopping, and Aubrun leaves his job at a software maker in time to spend two hours with the kids. But when Godoy, 38, worked at White & Case, a law firm, he called every afternoon to see if she'd be home to make dinner. And in March, it was Godoy who took a one-year leave when three children and two jobs proved too stressful. ''It never entered my mind that Vincent would stop work,'' she says.
HIS TAKE
''I didn't consider not working. I don't think I could spend more time at home. And I feel the responsibility to provide. Society pressures me to be involved with my kids. It would be [less stressful] if that didn't apply.''
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