The Motherhood Experiment

Today's New York Times featured an interesting article discussing the problem of low fertility rates in several developed countries. It touches on an issue important to many of us: achieving work-life balance and juggling motherhood with a career. While it's no secret that women's employment is one of several key factors to declining birth rates in the developed countries, what is interesting is its discussion of efforts by a few of these countries (mostly Scandinavian) to increase their birthrates by making it easier for women to successfully manage the balancing act.