Recently, nearly 70% of women in Jiangsu who have studied in college have only one child on the hot search list. With the topic of #Women's Education Level leading to fewer or no births, there has also been a hot search list.
The two topics together look quite interesting, young women have low fertility intentions, this pot, should be carried by high education?
Will women's increased educational attainment lead to fewer or no births?
Due to the decline in the fertility rate year after year, the topic of fertility has become a hot topic of discussion in the whole society.
Recently, Jiangsu Province released the "2021 Jiangsu Permanent Population Natural Growth Rate for the First Time Negative" report, once again pushing the topic of fertility to the cusp of public opinion.
The report pointed out that nearly 70% of women with higher education have only one child; the proportion of highly Chinese women who have one child and two children is about 47%; the majority of primary school and below primary Chinese degrees have two or more children, accounting for 63.42% and 59.21% respectively; among women without children, highly educated people account for more than half.
Based on these data, the report concludes that as women's educational attainment increases, they lead to fewer or no births.
Seeing this conclusion, many netizens were shocked, it turned out that reading delayed women's birth!
Does a woman's academic qualifications affect fertility?
Although this report has surveys and data, it is difficult for women to agree with this result.
Childbirth is a matter of two people, why is the report only mentioning women? What percentage of men with higher education have one child?
And there are so many factors that affect fertility, but using the option of education as a research sample, how reliable are the conclusions?
In any case, the direct causal relationship between fertility and women's academic qualifications lacks some objectivity.
Admittedly, highly educated women may be more cautious about childbearing. But just by "nearly 70% of highly educated women have only one child", it is too arbitrary to conclude that increased women's education will lead to fewer or no births.
Although women are the main body of fertility, childbirth is a matter for two people, and a woman alone cannot complete the childbirth project.
In other words, a woman wants to have a second child, but if her husband does not give birth, then she will be "forced" to have a child, and she will become one of the "nearly 70% of highly educated women who have only one child".
When the accuracy of the sample data is in doubt, the conclusion is naturally unconvincing.
More reflection is needed
There is really no necessary connection between the willingness to have children and the level of education.
Mommy has seen many highly educated women, because she likes children not only to have a second child, but also to give birth to a third child. At the same time, Mommy has also seen low-educated women choose Dink or have only one child.
In the final analysis, children are the crystallization of love and the product of the environment.
It is not surprising that couples have good feelings, have money and leisure, and they also like children, and it is not surprising that they have a second or third child; and those women who are exhausted in the family and the workplace are not willing to have children or only willing to have one child, it will be understandable.
There are many factors that affect the willingness to have children, and the level of education is only one of the insignificant ones, and linking women's fertility intentions with academic qualifications is tantamount to peeping in the tube.
As for the conclusion that "the improvement of women's education level will lead to fewer or no births", it is even more ridiculous.
Think about the "chained woman" incident, think about the discrimination against women in the current workplace, and think about "widowed parenting", perhaps closer to the truth of women's lack of birth or no birth than focusing on women's academic qualifications.