Men Doing More Housework Won’t Raise Fertility

/ Mike Buchanan

Our thanks to Douglas for this. He writes:

“Over the past decade and more there have been a lot of ‘reports’ and statements from the United Nations downwards on the theory that if only men did even more domestic work, fertility would rise.

Of course men are to blame. It’s not enough that they work harder, longer, at higher-risk jobs to support the family. They should be making women’s lives easier too.

Now there is a study that debunks this. It does find some correlation between countries with low men’s domestic work and low fertility but within countries, there is no such relationship—or if there is, it is variable and a combination of both increased and decreased fertility the more a man does in the home.

No surprise. But it is nice to have a quality, long-term study.”

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4 thoughts on “Men Doing More Housework Won’t Raise Fertility”

    • As always I’m very interested in the time use data. This show very clearly that women’s feelings about “unfairness” are entirely unrelated to objective measures of actual time use. A rather neat demonstration of the difference between “feminist” theory where facts are jettisoned in favour of “ways of knowing”. The implication of this research is that if countries wish to improve birthrates a culture of encouraging partnering for the purpose of raising a family is vital.

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  2. I’m not sure if the people( whom the article refers to) are disingenuous or just serially incompetent when it comes to writing about low fertility( eg birth rates).

    It has been pretty obvious for some time why this happens, and it’s simply a combination of factors ( which notably affect western nations).

    1. legal bias against fathers and the weaponisation of a court to take their children away from them.
    2. demonisation of men. When you constantly label men in a negative manner r*****ts, misogynist, too short, too poor, too ugly etc then men are going to simply walk away from relationships and in turn no children
    3. immigration. said over and over again. it puts immense pressure on everyone( men and women) because they fear the lack of stability in order to raise kids. Studies have been done using mice( or rats?) on what happens when you overcrowd a space and cause a resource issue.

    These people are demonstrating why any studies not based in stem are incredibly flawed, as the general public even without critical thinking can see the bleedin obvious !

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  3. This is interesting from a Male feminist Reeves. For a start he reveals his feminist wife thought him not masculine enough in “couples therapy”. Then in describing what “masculinity” looks like describes traditional gentlemanly behaviour and the need to be a potential “partner”. Not an equal partner though one that earns enough so that the female partner has choices to take time off to have and nurture children or have a “work life” balance! I wondered if he was on the journey that of Warren Farrell as he outlined the same situation, men were still to be masculine as always, but just not note that they had to continue privilege women. The “partnership” not including him having “choices” https://youtu.be/Yi1OBJg7zeA?si=LumV_9FeGyvGo_a1

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