Women's Birth Rate Decline Continues Despite Men Doing More Housework Than Before
New analysis finds the link explains only about 2% of fertility variation, as updated country data shows birth rates still falling.
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Women's Birth Rate Decline Continues Despite Men Doing More Housework Than Before
Households across the developed world have grown more equal over the past two decades, with men taking on a larger share of chores and childcare than their fathers ever did. Yet birth rates have carried on falling regardless, undercutting a widely discussed theory that framed men's failure to pull their weight at home as the missing piece of the global fertility puzzle. The theory, laid out by Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin in a pa…
The question is too often: how to convince women to have more children? A liberal state should ask itself why so many people who would like to have them face economic and professional obstacles that make that choice too expensive
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