Do you think there is a reason to believe it gets worse as women's labor participation increases? It was around 50% around the mid-century economic boom. Just look at the wage gap between men and women, it's actually fully explained by childbirth. There is no wage gap between women that have no children and men. Now take the wage gap, multiply it by 1.5 because she's going to have more children and amplify it because it's harder to find entry level jobs when you are old.
Having fewer children is a rational choice. If you want more children you have to find a way to make children not be so much of an economic burden (on women primarily but by extension also to married couples). "Oh I wish I could bamboozle all the women into being good Christians, then they would make more children" isn't going to cut it, that's not how the causality is running.
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Do you think there is a reason to believe it gets worse as women's labor participation increases? It was around 50% around the mid-century economic boom. Just look at the wage gap between men and women, it's actually fully explained by childbirth. There is no wage gap between women that have no children and men. Now take the wage gap, multiply it by 1.5 because she's going to have more children and amplify it because it's harder to find entry level jobs when you are old.
Having fewer children is a rational choice. If you want more children you have to find a way to make children not be so much of an economic burden (on women primarily but by extension also to married couples). "Oh I wish I could bamboozle all the women into being good Christians, then they would make more children" isn't going to cut it, that's not how the causality is running.
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