I'm shocked that 7% of women between 46-50 had their first child over 40. I suspect that is going to drop off a cliff because this is a cohort that got their career started well before the financial crisis of 2008, which had a dramatic impact on fertility due to the impacts it had on career development and on the corresponding male demographic.
What could hold it up is the amount of career supports women have had at the expense of men post-2008, and improvements in IVF technology and availability.
But then this data is pre-covid, so that would have cratered the chances of younger millennials to have children over 40, due to anxiety and a variety of other economic and cultural factors.
I'm shocked that 7% of women between 46-50 had their first child over 40. I suspect that is going to drop off a cliff because this is a cohort that got their career started well before the financial crisis of 2008, which had a dramatic impact on fertility due to the impacts it had on career development and on the corresponding male demographic.
What could hold it up is the amount of career supports women have had at the expense of men post-2008, and improvements in IVF technology and availability.
But then this data is pre-covid, so that would have cratered the chances of younger millennials to have children over 40, due to anxiety and a variety of other economic and cultural factors.