Modern motherhood has economists worried

A recent article in Bloomberg sounded the familiar alarm: “Modern Motherhood has Economists Worried.” Bloomberg looked at data from 1970-2000 among those aged 25-54, showing women’s increase in the working population, while showing men’s moderate decline.

Quoting a Janet Yellen speech at Brown University, the writer goes on to state:

“We, as a country, have reaped great benefits from the increasing role that women have played in the economy,” she [Yellen] said.

Modern motherhood has economists worried

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“But evidence suggests that barriers to women’s continued progress remain.” Among those barriers: “a lack of equal opportunity and challenges to combining work and family.”

Long time readers of the blog know I have written about this extensively.

Yellen’s words continue to ring true, but there is a larger, more troubling issue here and one needs only to do a small amount of digging to find it. An article published by the Pew Research Center has a simi