The Myth about Women

Posted by Carol Coletta on August 24, 2008

At predictable intervals, the press promotes the "new trend" of hordes of women leaving the workforce to raise their children.  The problem is it's just not true. 

Sixty percent of all women who have children work. 

A new Census Bureau report finds that women are waiting longer to have children and more women are choosing not to have children at all.  Twenty percent of women 40-44 have no children, double the number of 30 years ago.  And women in that age bracket who do have children have fewer than ever -- 1.9 compared with 3.1 in 1976.  The more educated women are, the less likely they are to have children. Hispanic women are bucking the trend, but the longer they are in the U.S., the more likely they are to have fewer children.

Making assumptions about women is more dangerous than ever.