Women are women, motivated by biological instinct
Reducing women to their biology isn't going to convince them to have children, and if you express views like that in public you're just going to alienate them and further convice them that men are selfish creatures who just see them as baby-producing factories.
Look at the high turnover in high pressure jobs at places like Goldman Sachs or in other fields like law and medicine, where females drop out of the workforce to become wives and mothers and only re-enter once the children are grown up. And in many cases, these females tend not to return to the workforce if they don't have to.
Goldman Sachs has a high turnover because their working conditions are terrible and people burn out. The few people I know who worked there were miserable whether they were men or women. As for law and medicine, women
choose to have children and, unsurprisingly, have no choice but to "drop out" to look after them in their immediate infancy because men are historically reluctant to take time off.
That said, increasingly women do return to work after childbirth, especially if they're earning a lot more than the cost of childcare.
In my experience it tends to be women trying to get out of doing the hard yards and basically waiting around to get married.
In my experience women in work aim to have careers and even if when young they have the idea that they'll marry a super-rich person that will look after them, when their reality is shattered they recognise they need to work to keep bread on the table. Indeed, what I have found is that the more chill and less macho the office, the more likely it is that women will want to seek promotions.
I shit you not, females of the anglosphere don't even parent anymore. I once dated a New York girl from the New England area and she'd been medicated since primary school.
1. One woman does not represent the female population of New York.
2. The female population of New York does not represent the USA.
3. The USA does not represent the English speaking/NA/European world.
I know a total of zero people, male or female, who were medicated since school.
The problem is that you're projecting western ideals into how a woman should behave, as opposed to how women do behave.
Females are by nature hypergamous- they want to marry the top high earning achievers, the alpha males; in China, this translates to
高富帅 "GaoFuShuai": Tall, rich and handsome.
I'm not telling you how women should behave, I'm telling you how the modern world works. It doesn't matter what some girls may think they want, because when they realise that there aren't enough uber-rich men to look after them they have no choice but to start grafting.
There is evidence that the gender gap in China has made the current generation of Chinese women more picky because they can afford to be. However, that doesn't account for the low birth rate because it's calculated per woman rather than head of population.
Putting aside issues relating to having a career, the other biggest issue is the CCP's population control policies. You can't spend decades drilling propaganda into girls and women that it's their duty not to have more than one child, backed up by fines and in some cases forced abortions, and then suddenly expect them to have two children because the cap has been lifted. It may take one or even two generations to remove the impact of the one child policy.
The solution is to encourage younger family formation, where the eggs are most healthy and most plentiful; female high school graduates should be encouraged to become mothers first before thinking about an education- for these females, this necessarily means not going into uni until they're about 33-35 as opposed to the current situation of shengnu, leftover females who are 33-35, university educated and don't even have kids, let alone married!
First, China is still a conservative society in terms of relationships. Relatively few young people have long-term, stable relationships by the time they decide whether they go to university or not. Encouraging relative strangers, who have no concept of what a healthy relationship is or how to assess if their planned partner is good for them or not, to marry is going to end in more divorces and cases of domestic abuse.
Second, these young men about to head off to university are not going to be in a position to support anyone, and given that university accommodation is single you're not going to be building lasting relationships if these couples are kept apart during the academic year.
Third, there's no obvious incentive to any Chinese girl to defer going to university for the best part of two decades just because people say she may struggle to have children.
There is, absolutely,
, and the central government should make it mandatory to have useful sex-ed classes from the age of 11 onwards on pain of local officials having future promotions blocked if they don't put them in place. Girls do need to understand about how their fertility can drop off the edge of a cliff. But that's about informed choices.
The Chinese economy is also built on women being able to work. The idea that you can return to this old-fashioned China where women stay at home rearing children whilst the men go off to work is a fantasy. There are just not enough well-paid jobs where one parent can earn enough to support a two-child family, a non-working spouse, potentially grandparents and put aside money for the future. China needs women to be working.
If you want to address the poor demographic situation in China, you need to:
1. Improve support for mothers who want to work via better paid maternity leave;
2. Improve child support for those on low and middle incomes;
3. Encourage Chinese men to take time off to help look after their children, such as via shared leave/parternity leave;
4. Have tighter enforcement on discrimination based on gender/abuse of women;
5. Have more public education to reduce misogyny and treat people with respect;
6. Improve sex-ed classes; and
7. Raise the retirement age to keep people in work and reduce the drain on pensions whilst policies to deal with demographics are brought in.
