How English-speaking countries upended the trade-off between babies and jobs without even trying
- Written by Daniel Dinale, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
OECD data now shows a positive correlation between higher female labour participation and higher fertility rates.www.shutterstock.comThe traditional understanding of women’s economic empowerment is that, as participation in paid employment increases, fertility decreases.
This was certainly true in industrialised nations up to the early...
