Way down under the accountability gap | HBR Talk 406

The cross-national correlation between gender equality and lower fertility is exceptionally strong (r ≈ 0.81). After the 1960s, a unique mating regime spread across parts of the world—with female emancipation, individual mate choice, and effective birth control—followed by a continuing rise in singlehood and declining fertility. Almost all women still want to reproduce, but many struggle to find a good-enough partner. This article argues from an evolutionary perspective that many men’s utility to “free women” has been so diminished that solving the fertility crisis by increasing pair-bonding rates seems unfeasible. A viable means for aiding the survival of low-fertility nations could be to provide women with the economic and social resources necessary for them to conclude that having children alone makes for a better life than remaining childless. Such policies would likely exacerbate male marginalization, but new technologies are on the horizon that could offer men reproductive equality.

We have to talk about the accountability gap, because I’m thick headed and took a few years to come to a conclusion that I should have realized years ago.

Welcome to HBR News where we give the badger treatment to the news of the week! This week we will be talking about Kier Starmer's resignation, the SPLC official who was LITERALLY in bed with Neo-Nazis, a dad is attacked for being a dad, and more!

The Voidcat vigil continues. "Women suck" by: A womanAlso REPO. Since Mia the Void Cat has warped back into the abyss from whence she came, so we are going to try to have some fun to decompress from all the BS we deal with every day. So we will play the horror comedy game, REPO. We will also be reading an article about men leaving the workforce! Women most affected! Tune in!

What do the 4B movement, abortion, child murder, modern writing and ancient Hellenic plays have in common?

We have to talk about the accountability gap, because I’m thick headed and took a few years to come to a conclusion that I should have realized years ago.

The cross-national correlation between gender equality and lower fertility is exceptionally strong (r ≈ 0.81). After the 1960s, a unique mating regime spread across parts of the world—with female emancipation, individual mate choice, and effective birth control—followed by a continuing rise in singlehood and declining fertility. Almost all women still want to reproduce, but many struggle to find a good-enough partner. This article argues from an evolutionary perspective that many men’s utility to “free women” has been so diminished that solving the fertility crisis by increasing pair-bonding rates seems unfeasible. A viable means for aiding the survival of low-fertility nations could be to provide women with the economic and social resources necessary for them to conclude that having children alone makes for a better life than remaining childless. Such policies would likely exacerbate male marginalization, but new technologies are on the horizon that could offer men reproductive equality.

Welcome to HBR News where we give the badger treatment to the news of the week! This week we will be talking about the massive social media ban in the YooKay, singer and comedian Oliver Tree dies in a terrible accident, and more!

The Voidcat vigil continues. Women are now just telling us they take pleasure in men's pain. What a shocker. Also REPO. Since Mia the Void Cat has warped back into the abyss from whence she came, so we are going to try to have some fun to decompress from all the BS we deal with every day. So we will play the horror comedy game, REPO. We will also be reading an article about men leaving the workforce! Women most affected!

What do the 4B movement, abortion, child murder, modern writing and ancient Hellenic plays have in common?