European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Corporate consultants say managers tend to perceive married men As More stable More dedicated to their careers. Less Likely to Cost the firm Money by changing lobs. Marital status key to corporate Success by Keith Bradsher new York times Hen Michael Mccartney. 26. Was looking Lor a management pm last year he had no micros in finding a wife Loo. But interviewers interest in his personal life prompted him to Lell them to was engager to be married. If you appeared As a single Young Buck they looked Al you  said Mccartney who is now the International marketing manager of a taiwanese company and recently did become engaged of inc manager of a modelling Agency. Despite three decades of sweeping social changes including later marriage a rising divorce rate and a wider acceptance of alternative living arrangements Many corporations still expect men on the management track to marry by the age of 30, according to executive search concerns and career consultants being married contributes More to corporate Success for men than for women the consultants say. Recent surveys have found that while half the top executive women were single less than a tenth of the men were staying single May give women of All Ages a career advantage by allowing executives the impression that they can concentrate fully on their work researchers said Many career advisers contend that the people who make hiring and promotion decisions Many of them older men tend to perceive married men As Mere stable More dedicated to their careers belter Able to get along with others and less Likely to Cost the company Mono by changing jobs such managers sometimes have prejudices against hiring or promoting homosexuals and assume that married men Are heterosexual career Counselor said these altitudes make it More difficult for homosexual men to succeed in corporate America they said it merely Means they have to work harder said James e challenger the president of challenger Gray & Christmas a Job placement concern in Chicago Fortunat Mueller Maerki. A partner in the new York office of Egon Zehnder International one of the world s largest executive search firms said employers Are still very very conservative maybe not in what they say but in the Way they act " perhaps that is because men who Are top executives lend to be. At least in marital status what they want the younger men who work for hem to be a Survey has shown that they arc ice than half As Likely As other men their a3e to be since a Man who r Hitti Entha corp crate la dior is Mere Likely to be Mam cd to his first v., than 10 a Iran who occupies a lower rung according to a recent study by the Chicago concern of Heidrick & struggles in the third largest executive search company in the nation a single Man Over 29 still a a harder time finding a Job than a married Man Over that age. Said Job placement experts who Are paid by companies to find new jobs for people who Are Laid off there s no question if you re 30 and single you ii have a harder Home finding a Job challenger said. Companies that want men to marry by 30 appear to be out of step with a Broad National trend toward the postponement of marriage the National Center Tor health statistics a government Agency said that in 1986,184 percent of All american men who married for the first time were 30 or older up from 10 percent in 1976 a census Bureau study released  All found that More men were marrying later for 3 variety of reasons because they spend so Many years in College and graduate school because they can live with women without As much social pressure to marry them and because they cannot afford to move out of their parents Homes at a Lime of rising housing prices. Sociologists add that Many Young men want to build their careers first. I Don t want to be married for a few years yet said Craig Bamsey 24, a graduate student in business at the Hailon school of the University of Pennsylvania he said he and his girls Nind had agreed to postpone marriage for career reasons it simplifies my life if i Don t have to move someone around with  to said a Sharp drop recently in the number of men who marry in their 20s suggests that the trend toward late marriage will continue but 30. Or at most 35. Continues to be the age by which Many companies expect men to have married career Counselor agree. Personnel directors and representatives of a dozen Large american corporations said their companies do not discriminate in hiring or promotion on the basis of marital status. They said there is no optimal age for a Man to marry to Benefit his career. But three human relations executives speaking on Condit in that they not be kiss tiled acknowledged that be no marked could s=m2t .tie3 help a Man s career although they assorted that is effect is very Small. Victor s. Cosr.10. Until recently the owner of a graphic arts studio with 30 employees in Armonk n.y., said he wanted the Young men he hired to be married. Cossio who has been married Lor 23 years said such men had someone to care for and did not have a life like a free floating Feather and would not Drill away in is  Cossio. Who is now looking for a Job As chief operating officer of a Small business said his marital status comes up Early and often in his Job interviews. Does marriage make a Man Vork better or Are men who Are Good workers More Likely to marry sociologists have yet to resolve that question. Not All career experts agree that being single tends to impede advancement for men. Corporations have adapted for the most part except at the highest level in the More traditional industries like manufacturing said Robert j Lee the chairman of Lee Hecht Harrison inc. A new York Job placement concern that is the third largest in the nation in some professions remaining single past 30 has advantages there Are certain professions where being married at a Young age can create  said Jack l Lesher a partner in Korn ferry International a Large executive search concern with Headquarters in Century City calf. Those professions require Young employees investment Bankers consultants accountants executive searchers and lawyers for example to work very Long hours and to travel extensively he said. Single men about 30 Are More Likely to win Plum foreign assignments because they can be moved easily and have few claims on their time said a human resources executive Al a commercial Bank in new York who asked not to be identified. Marketing jobs and other jobs involving extensive travel olten go to single men while Many companies prefer married men in administrative and supervisory Page 14 stars and stripes monday Jan