Women with higher education often prioritize their careers and personal goals over starting a family. They may also delay childbearing due to factors such as financial stability, relationship status, and access to support systems. Additionally, higher education can lead to greater awareness of the challenges and responsibilities of parenthood, influencing decisions about family size.
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the had the same education as we do know but less resources #
no education for women and the poor had less education
Education. Because most of the children had begun schooling hence spent less time working in factories.
Educated women are more likely to pursue business opportunities, and therefore tend to have fewer children.
About 31% of mothers with less than a high school education read daily to their children. http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=reading-to-young-children
children because that is who they could afford. children would work for less that women and men
Women employees with less education and skills may face challenges such as lower wages, limited job opportunities, lack of advancement opportunities, and higher likelihood of working in low-paying or informal sectors. They may also experience discrimination, harassment, and lack of access to training and support programs. These factors can contribute to a cycle of poverty and economic insecurity for these women.
Birth rate refers to how many children are born per 1000 people, so higher birth rates result from anything influencing this 'choice'. reasons why LEDCs have a higher birth rate are both due to a falling birth rate in many MEDCs as well as increasing birth rates in LEDCs. One: sex and age - If women are within child-bearing age (18-25 I suppose is accurate) they are more likely to have children and less likely to lose the child. This can explain differences between LEDCs and MEDCs as in LEDCs there is a greater proportion of younger women than in MEDCs in their population, which will in turn increase births per 1000 people. Two: Economic reasons. In MEDCs less people are having children, as they give an 'opportunity cost' (i.e. if a family have a child they may not be able to move into a larger house, for example, due to needing the money for raising the child). In LEDCs children can instead be seen as an economic asset, particularly in rural agrarian cultures where more children means an extra pair of hands to work the land. Both are significant; the first in deterring births in MEDCs and the second incentivising them in LEDCs. Three: Social reasons. Firstly, there is evidence to support that with gender equality fertility rates fall, thus birth rates also fall. It is the same with education of women. Both give women a choice on whether or not to have children, making it less of a part of life, which will inevitably lead to some deciding against having children. This is less the case in LEDCs, explaining why more women have children here than in MEDCs. Secondly, it can also be seen favourably for men to have a lot of children, pushing both men and women to have more children to achieve a higher social status (the case in many parts of Africa). Thirdly, if expectations are that half of your children will die before adulthood, you are likely to have more to ensure the family can continue - with higher infant mortality in LEDCs a lot of women choose to have more children to ensure that at least one survives (which is not the case in MEDCs). Finally, contraception plays a vital role both in availibility and willingness - certain cultures will frown upon contraception for religious reasons (many of these in LEDCs), and LEDCs are less likely to invest in family planning, so people are less aware of measures they can take to have less children.
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Owners could pay women and children less than they paid men.
Yes, they were, women in higher classes had more privilage and women of lower classes had less.