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Where are these countries that within the population a woman’s fertility isn’t negatively correlated to her education and career attainments? Scandinavian coun
by bradleyjg 5y ago
Where are these countries that within the population a woman’s fertility isn’t negatively correlated to her education and career attainments?
Scandinavian countries do everything you are advocating for and have the same fertility trends as everyone else.
Advocate for those policies anyway, if you want to, but don’t claim they are going to move the needle when we have evidence they won’t.
- mgbmtl 5y agoWhich evidence? In Quebec/Canada, when state-spondored affordable daycare was introduced, it made a notable difference both for the number of women in the workforce, and also an increase in childbirth. https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/daycare-difference-quebec-fertility-rate-outpacing-ontario-s-1.4018340 https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/daycare-difference-queb... Far from perfect, it was defunded in recent years, and it again made the birthrate and workforce go down. As a parent, I can anecdotally say that this system, when it worked, made a huge difference for our family.
- sudosysgen 5y agoAs someone who grew up thanks to this system, it did tremendous good to our family.
- Zpalmtree 5y agowhy is throwing kids in daycare so parents can go slave for more money a good thing
- bradleyjg 5y agoI didn’t read the underlying study but based on the summary it looks like there was a statistically significant difference in overall fertility. It still never came close to replacement rate and tells us nothing about the sign on the correlation between a woman’s educational and career achievements and her fertility. There’s arguments on all sides about whether sub replacement fertility among woman with successful white collar careers is or isn’t a problem. But what I haven’t seen is any country that’s managed to reverse it. So we don’t in fact know if it is possible.