To see where the problems are: If you are a married woman and you earn more than your husband, you still end up with more childcare responsibilities and less m

To see where the problems are: If you are a married woman and you earn more than your husband, you still end up with more childcare responsibilities and less money than your peers. If you are in a field that is dominated by women, your compensation becomes progressively less than pay in other fields. If you are great or even best at what you do and chose to not have kids to remain paid well, you remove yourself from the human gene-pool, which is not favorable for humanity in the long run. Because of norms and cultural understanding you are essentially throttling 50% of humanity's evolutionary and talent potential on the basis of a random assignment at conception. A different study proves than economically developed countries with more conservative cultural norms regarding gender have substantially lower birth rates (Japan, Bulgaria), well below turnover rates for a healthy society (turnover rate: 2.1 children per family). The more shared parental responsibility an educated society has, the higher its growth. So are cultural norms mortgaging the future of developed economies? How can this problem be fixed? Now if you look outside of the US and in different social experiments here is how the problem has been solved before: 1. Families live in the same area reducing economic mobility and slowing down overall econlnomy, but retired grandparents take over care for little ones. 2. Providing universal childcare with high standards of care and education (partial example: Israel, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe etc). After some iteration society ensures that every child gets an equally productive start. Parents male or female are serving society with their best skill set. Population growth in an economically advanced society that leads to economic and scientific development as well.