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  • 34 - Managing expectations and achieving realism: the ‘realpolitik’ of reproductive ageing and its consequences

  • from SECTION 9 - THE FUTURE: DREAMS AND WAKING UP
    • By Zoe Williams, The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU
  • Edited by Susan Bewley, William Ledger, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Dimitrios Nikolaou
  • Book:
    Reproductive Ageing
    Published online:
    05 February 2014
    Print publication:
    01 June 2009, pp 339-346

  • Summary

    The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) report describes the number of children that women say they want in their 20s as a 'baby gap', compared with the number they have had by the time they are aged 45 years. The flip side to the poverty trap is the trap at the other end of a woman's fertility span: involuntary childlessness, at worst, or the lesser but still meaningful, baby gap due to starting too late and only being able to have one child. The encouraging features, such as the end of the pay gap between the genders and more flexible working practices so that part-time work does not necessarily have to be menial, are things that government and society are working towards anyway, as pleasing goals in their own right. If women still procrastinate, new models for welfare and benefit and redistribution of wealth will have to be found.