[theqoo] 62% OF WOMEN WHO WORK "DON'T WANT TO HAVE KIDS" - Netizenbuzz

Graph: from 2014~2023

Pink: % of economically active women

Blue: Total fertility rate

‘Birth rate 1.0’ Now is the golden time

55% of unmarried people “have no intention of getting married”… As economic activity increases, births drop

The ideal number of children is ‘2 or more’… A solution to balance work and family is urgently needed

7 out of 10 economically active women between the ages of 25 and 45, the appropriate age for marriage and childbirth, thought it would be ideal to have two or more children. However, 6 out of 10 had no intention of giving birth. There is a big gap between the ideal and reality of planning for children.

On the 27th, the Korea Economic Daily commissioned Ipsos, a public opinion research company, to conduct an online survey from February 5th to 20th targeting 1,000 economically active women aged 25 to 45. As a result, 62.2% of respondents said, ‘In the future, ‘I have no intention of having children,’ . 66.6% of single women and 59.2% of married women said they had no intention of having children. 55.0% of single women responded that they had no intention of getting married.

Reasons for not wanting to give birth (multiple responses) included ‘because I don’t want to be tied down to raising children’, ‘because I am not financially comfortable’, and ‘because I think it will be an obstacle to self-actualization’.

[…] In particular, the birth rate fell sharply starting in 2015, but women’s economic activities increased rapidly during the same period. Analysis suggests that women have given up or delayed childbirth to choose work over children.

1. Nobody should get kids. Your career will disappear

2. I just want to live alone, I’ll live by myself

3. When I was a working mom, I was out of my mind commuting for over three hours round trip. I’ll just end with one kid

4. People aren’t even getting married anymore, so the subject of childbirth is an even more distant topic

5. Obviously. When female workers have children, they are treated as scrap because they cannot concentrate on their work. When you get married, housework and child care work are all added to your total workload.

6. I’ll just take care of my own life

7. So people expect us to make money, give birth and care for the kid. We’re not in a generation where we’re just enduring everything anymore

8. Me too I keep myself so busy, there’s no time to have a kid ㅇㅇOf course, I’m not married either and I’m living comfortably alone

9. Isn’t it obvious? Unless a machine for childbirth gets invented ㅋㅋㅋ If there’s nobody who will take responsibility of my vacant position, then shut up. And I also need my promotion

10. Honestly this is the reality. We’re in a system where even people who have given birth to children can’t even advise other people to give birth anymore