Childbearing and changing gender roles

• 2.9 babies per woman in 1960

  1.6 per woman in 2022
• Sharp= family is moving towards symmetry because women are more focused on their careers than having children
• Kan= for every £10,000 a year a woman makes she does 2 hours less housework
• Edward Shorter= families and societies have become more 'child-centred,' where children are seen as a priority.
• Giddens= pure relationships