It’s entirely possible to have a culture where women can have families and careers at the same time. It’s entirely a cultural problem and is completely solvable if there is a collective will to solve it.
Scandinavian countries do everything you are advocating for and have the same fertility trends as everyone else.
Advocate for those policies anyway, if you want to, but don’t claim they are going to move the needle when we have evidence they won’t.
In Quebec/Canada, when state-spondored affordable daycare was introduced, it made a notable difference both for the number of women in the workforce, and also an increase in childbirth.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/daycare-difference-queb...
Far from perfect, it was defunded in recent years, and it again made the birthrate and workforce go down. As a parent, I can anecdotally say that this system, when it worked, made a huge difference for our family.
There’s arguments on all sides about whether sub replacement fertility among woman with successful white collar careers is or isn’t a problem. But what I haven’t seen is any country that’s managed to reverse it. So we don’t in fact know if it is possible.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. Can't be a good mother and a good worker. You can't be at home taking care of your baby and at work being productive for your company/boss/etc. Not rocket science.
> It’s entirely a cultural problem and is completely solvable if there is a collective will to solve it.
The most egalitarian societies with the most women-friendly workplaces have some of the lowest birth rates. Your assertion, which has been around for decades, has been well tested and well debunked. For decades, wealthy western societies have increased benefits for working mothers. Birth rates continued to decline.
If you want higher birth rates, you want women to spend less time in school/work and have children in their prime birthing years ( 18-29 ). That's simple biological fact. The question for society is whether we want women at home with their babies for the benefit of their families or we want women at work for the benefit of corporations/shareholders. The elites have spoken and it's the latter. It's why the elites want more immigration. We need to maintain the population somehow.
The issue isn't complex unless you want it to be complex because you don't like the simple truth.
Of course you can.
Wait, are you expecting the mother to be doing all the child-rearing?
Is this a pressure applied to women, or to people in general?
Is it easier for men or for women to return to work after spending a few years taking care of their kids?
Perhaps discrimination goes the other way.
Perhaps society shouldn't make men choose between a career and jerking off all day
Society does not. You do.
So encouraging smart women to procreate would in reality simply unbias our society and make things fair again.
No need to invoke "eugenics" or something