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Women's Birth Rate Decline Continues Despite Men Doing More Housework Than Before

New analysis finds the link explains only about 2% of fertility variation, as updated country data shows birth rates still falling.

Summary by IBTimes UK
Households across the developed world have grown more equal over the past two decades, with men taking on a larger share of chores and childcare than their fathers ever did. Yet birth rates have carried on falling regardless, undercutting a widely discussed theory that framed men's failure to pull their weight at home as the missing piece of the global fertility puzzle. The theory, laid out by Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin in a pa…

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IBTimes UK broke the news in United Kingdom on Monday, August 17, 2026.
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