I don’t think the government can change it. At the most basic, women, like men, desire financial freedom, and that requires being valuable in the workforce (or

I don’t think the government can change it. At the most basic, women, like men, desire financial freedom, and that requires being valuable in the workforce (or having passive income from investments). Straight paying women to have that financial security is also a problem, because you don’t want to incentivize someone to just have kids, you want to incentivize them to have well raised kids, and that is impossible to measure and a political quagmire.