Spittin' fire! I love how you cross correlated the specific drops by career, the drop in motherhood in toto in terms of percent of women becoming mothers, and things like recessions and automation both measurably contributing.
I've never seen this collection of facts all aggregated before, but it paints a really clear and compelling picture, kudos for putting that together.
I think culture is the dominant factor, measuring that through "desire" for kids alone isn't the best
People may "want" the same number of kids, but they seem to perceive more "barriers" too
"Standards" for the life that should be given to kids, and the education that they have to go through, changed, this is partly cultural, and with it fertility is affected
Also, I probably pointed this out before, but ....money helps with fertility, while employment for women doesn't
If two women are working same hours and one of them is earning more, the higher earning woman isn't necessarily harming her ability to have kids compared to the other woman
But, working in itself, (taking money out of the equation) probably harms fertility for women
So, it is a combinations of feeling financially secure, and not working much
Spittin' fire! I love how you cross correlated the specific drops by career, the drop in motherhood in toto in terms of percent of women becoming mothers, and things like recessions and automation both measurably contributing.
I've never seen this collection of facts all aggregated before, but it paints a really clear and compelling picture, kudos for putting that together.
Thank you!
Oh, I just saw this
I think culture is the dominant factor, measuring that through "desire" for kids alone isn't the best
People may "want" the same number of kids, but they seem to perceive more "barriers" too
"Standards" for the life that should be given to kids, and the education that they have to go through, changed, this is partly cultural, and with it fertility is affected
Also, I probably pointed this out before, but ....money helps with fertility, while employment for women doesn't
If two women are working same hours and one of them is earning more, the higher earning woman isn't necessarily harming her ability to have kids compared to the other woman
But, working in itself, (taking money out of the equation) probably harms fertility for women
So, it is a combinations of feeling financially secure, and not working much
Thanks, very interesting. Does this explanation hold up for, say, El Salvador, Malaysia, Grenada, and Switzerland?