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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