Brace yourself. I’m about to commit an alien act: Deliver good news on the women front.
The news flash is this: Career minded women with advance degrees no longer have to panic that their ambitions will likely kill their shot at motherhood. Based on Pew Research Center’s analysis of U.S. census data, women with post graduate degrees are increasingly having children. Reports Pew:
Among women in the United States, postgraduate education and motherhood are increasingly going hand-in-hand. The share of highly educated women who are remaining childless into their mid-40s has fallen significantly over the past two decades
Today, about one-in-five women ages 40 to 44 with a master’s degree of higher (22 %) have no children—down from 30 % in 1994 . . . The decline is particularly dramatic among women with an M.D. or Ph.D.–fully 35% were childless in 1994, while today the share stands at 20%.
