Suzanne Daley and Nicholas Kulish:
Demographers say that a far better investment would be to support women juggling motherhood and careers by expanding day care and after-school programs. They say recent data show that growth in fertility is more likely to come from them.
“If you look closely at the numbers, what you see is the higher the gender equality, the higher the birthrate,” said Reiner Klingholz of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development.
I hope by “the numbers” they mean “talking to actual people to figure out why they didn’t have kids.”