Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ...
by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:26PM
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>a higher chance that a young woman will carry a baby than having a young man change for a better paying offer? //
Well surely the woman has all the possibilities the man has (eg changing to a better offer), plus they have the possibility of maternity, logically speaking. I'm considering maternity as a separate issue to child-rearing FWIW.
Quantitatively maternity probably dwarfs the male majority issues (for leaving the work force) such as suicide.
>Most don't care about babies, //
The proportion of humans who don't have basic biological urges associated with reproduction is approximately zero. A more telling statistic is probably "Of those born in 1971, 18 per cent were childless in 2016, when they turned 45." [1]. In the same article the average number of children a woman has by her 30th year is 1.0 in the UK.
Well surely the woman has all the possibilities the man has (eg changing to a better offer), plus they have the possibility of maternity, logically speaking. I'm considering maternity as a separate issue to child-rearing FWIW.
Quantitatively maternity probably dwarfs the male majority issues (for leaving the work force) such as suicide.
>Most don't care about babies, //
The proportion of humans who don't have basic biological urges associated with reproduction is approximately zero. A more telling statistic is probably "Of those born in 1971, 18 per cent were childless in 2016, when they turned 45." [1]. In the same article the average number of children a woman has by her 30th year is 1.0 in the UK.
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/24/proportion-women...