It’s conventional wisdom that smart people (or smart women) are having fewer kids. But according to this report (h/t Kevin Stolarick), that may be old news. Here are some key findings:
- Highly educated women (those with a graduate or professional degree) had the highest level of “current fertility” – that is, babies born in the last year.
- More than half of recent mothers (57 percent) are working.
- About one in five women age 40-44 were childless (nearly twice as high as the level 30 years earlier).
- Among recent mothers, more than a third (36 percent) were separated, widowed, divorced, or never married.
Read the press release.