Changes in Women's Position

• Changes in womens position?

  1. legal equality
  2. increased educational opportunities
  3. more women in paid employment
  4. changing attitudes to familial life and a womans role
  5. easier access to divorce
  6. access to abortion and reliable contraception
• Harper 2012:

  • education of women most important reason for fall in birth rate
  • change in mindset among women
  • more career opportunities
  • delay childbearing

  Once pattern of low fertility lasts for 1 generation - cultural norms change