A Ten Minute Play - Well-educated and Childless
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Women, though, will always be thought of as lacking something without a bouncing baby on their hips.
Why do we never worry about men's childlessness and infertility?
We live in a country where George Clooney is enviable, but Jennifer Aniston - whose lack of a baby bump is debated and fretted over in tabloid headlines - is somehow pitiful. In some ways, women have made progress when it comes to the decision not to have kids.
But, so long as the research done on family size is focused on women, we will continue to see parenting as a distinctly female endeavor - the consequences of which go beyond statistics and numbers, but impact the way we think about who is responsible for child care, who should be in the workforce, and what it means to be a productive member of society. So please, keep doing the research on women and children.
It seems only fair.
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Loading comments… Trouble loading? In the wake of this development, she wanted to investigate what distinguishes men who remain childless after finishing their degree from those who have a child by age Using high-quality Swedish register data she studied all college-educated men in Sweden born In addition to income, there are important differences across field of study.
Men who graduated with degrees in technology including computer programming , humanities and theology, and fine arts have the highest likelihood of remaining childless. In contrast, men with degrees in education, medicine, and health and social care all have a lower likelihood of childlessness. Men's preferences are also likely to play a role: It seems likely, however, that an important part of the explanation has to do with challenges these men might face in finding a partner.
young men has largely remained low, at 8 to 10 per cent. As men . entered into marriage first before pursuing higher education or work (Ravanera et al. portunities for young men have a large role to play in the transitions to family life, with their impact els of childlessness that is mainly an outcome of a “waiting game. The aim of the present study was to explore how highly educated women and of involuntary childlessness resulting from postponed child-bearing imply an These family policies seem to play an important role in keeping fertility The interviews were audio-taped and lasted for about half an hour (range 20–60 minutes).
Men with higher incomes may also be the kind of men who are more attractive to women, perhaps because they offer security or are more ambitious in their careers. College education has traditionally been a desirable social status attribute—but these findings suggest that higher education is not a priority for highly educated women, says Margarita Chudnovskaya.
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These results have major implications for understanding future family developments abroad. Nearly every OECD country has a similar gender imbalance in higher education and college educated women increasingly partner with lower educated men. Other countries are likely to see a trend similar to Sweden, and this trend could be explained by the fact that education loses some importance as a marker of status.