I think that the various studies on this subject do not take into account a simple explanation. Choice.
Women choose to no longer have children or to have a very limited amount of children because they don't see the point in it anymore.
Women who have kids lose the best years of their life and then on top of that have trouble getting back into the workforce once they are done raising the kids.
From their point of view, it means an overall loss of income and some may have to restart their careers from scratch because no employer wants to hire someone with a 5/10 year gap on their resume.
If I put myself in the shoes of young ambitious woman today, would I give up my dreams of climbing the corporate ladder/opening my own business/traveling the world in order to have kids or would I delay/ opt out of motherhood?
As a guy I don't even have to ask myself this question, but a woman will and as we can see from all these studies, they have decided that it is not worth it.
Women choose to no longer have children or to have a very limited amount of children because they don't see the point in it anymore.
Women who have kids lose the best years of their life and then on top of that have trouble getting back into the workforce once they are done raising the kids.
From their point of view, it means an overall loss of income and some may have to restart their careers from scratch because no employer wants to hire someone with a 5/10 year gap on their resume.
According to this study https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/03/almost-1-..., only 18% of stay at home parents are dads, which means that in 80% of the cases, it's the woman who has to sacrifice their career to raise the kids.
If I put myself in the shoes of young ambitious woman today, would I give up my dreams of climbing the corporate ladder/opening my own business/traveling the world in order to have kids or would I delay/ opt out of motherhood?
As a guy I don't even have to ask myself this question, but a woman will and as we can see from all these studies, they have decided that it is not worth it.