Yesterday's papers: Germany's birth rate is one of the lowest in Europe. In particular educated women decide against having children, because the reality is: career or kids, not both.
Today's paper: Germany comes last of all OECD countries in gender equality for pay differences (22 percent) and pension differences (large fraction of female pensioner poverty). Key factor explaining these differences: women who leave the labour force to have children, or can only re-enter at low-paid part-time jobs.
What is this country doing to its women??? And what are the women in this country doing to themselves??
Tough... When women sacrifice their careers to have children, they are actually sacrificing much more with long term consequences. The time devoted to kids is worth more than money but it's incredible that self-sacrificing women drop down to poverty once they are old. It's like a punishment for giving all you've got to others... Twisted!
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