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Planned to wait for the open thread to post this, but am heading out for the weekend (yippee) and it’s not up yet… maybe someone can repost it over there? But anyway, interesting NYT blog post: “Nearly half (43 percent) of college-educated Generation X women — those currently between the ages of 33 and 46 — are childless, a new study finds, and the statistic is likely to lead to a new wave of wondering why women still feel they have to choose between families and careers.”
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/gen-x-women-choose-work-over-kids/
I saw that one — but it feels like it’s too early to make proclamations about an age group (33-46) where many of them have fertile, childbearing years ahead of them.
Of course, that question assumes the women that don’t have families want them and felt like they had to choose. Perhaps some of them just didn’t want kids.
I found the following comparison in the article particularly interesting – “By contrast, among female graduates born in 1958 32.7% were childless at 35.”
All things considered, if for that group of women it was 33%, I’m surprised the number isn’t higher than 43% today. Especially if the number of younger (30’s) women out of that 33-46 group is larger than the number of older (40’s) women.
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