Parenting as a public good
Society has free-ridden on women for millennia, benefiting from the children they’ve had while bearing few of the costs. But as women have gained other options, birth rates have fallen.
Ellen Pasternack is an editor at Works in Progress. She previously worked as a Westminster policy researcher, and has a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Oxford.
Society has free-ridden on women for millennia, benefiting from the children they’ve had while bearing few of the costs. But as women have gained other options, birth rates have fallen.