Ilovethebomb comments on When women have a crush on men

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

We slowly are, most western countries have a birth rate below what we need to maintain the population.

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[–] Tedesche@lemmy.today 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That’s for economic reasons that have nothing to do with gender issues.

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[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

It's not economic, as much as people like to believe.

Even socially democratic utopias like Norway ,which have such massive sovereign funds that their citizenry don't need to work a day in their lives, have a population birth crisis.

And while I obviously am not arguing against it, the biggest correlation with declining birth rates are education and women enfranchisement.

Honestly, a demographic implosion needs to happen with some generation. Better now, to reset capitalistic expectations of unsustainable growth then later when it's compounded.

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[–] Tedesche@lemmy.today 1 point 5 months ago

In Norway, housing costs have skyrocketed like in the rest of the rest of the western world. This plays a significant role in the decline of birth rates. Also, as populations increase in wealth and education, birth rates tend to go down, because parents prioritize focusing on fewer children rather than having more to support an agrarian economy. It is economy-driven. The effects on female empowerment are interwoven with that. Women tend to do better in better economies, because better economies focus more on service industries rather than material ones, which favor women over men.

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