How is the social standing of women related to a nation's rate of population increase? Why do population control experts claim that the social standing of women is one important factor that affects population patterns?
What is an Ideal response?
• Most population experts agree that a key element in controlling world population growth is raising the standing of women.
• Making birth control technology more widely available is important, but the population will continue to increase as long as a culture defines women's primary responsibility as raising children.
• Dr. Nafis Sadik noted: Give a woman more choices about how to live, and she will have fewer children. A woman who has access to schooling and jobs can decide when and whether she wants to marry, and she will bear children as a matter of choice, not because it is the only option open to her. Under these conditions, evidence shows, women have fewer children.
• In countries where contraception is widespread, women have about two children; in countries where it is not, women have five or more children
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