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It's important to know that if you want to discuss this with the chair of a department where you're interviewing, or have an offer, you will have to bring it up yourself; it's illegal (at least in the U.S., or at least in the states I'm familiar with) for a university to ask you about your marital status. You'll find that most departments are eager to help to the extent they can, and that there's wide variation in what that extent is.