That makes no sense. They already get time off when they have the kid. Why do they then need to work fewer years at the end of the career? Lengthen maternity leave if you want, but I see no correlation between child birth and your ability to work past 60.
9 months of ruoning your body for a child, earlier it was usually 2+ children + heping take care if grandchildren. In addition, to lost career opportunities because of maternity leave (even in the perfect world, losing multiple years of experience negatively affects career).
What work? Coal mining for 40 years? Sure. Office job? Not even by a fraction. Moreover, I’m talking about short-term, not long term effect. Pregnancy is not fun by any means, in order to uplift ferrility rates that are in the gutter, additional bonuses to motivate woman are beneficial to the society. And I do agree, childless woman should have the same retirement age as men.
There's way better ways to encourage people to have kids than some benefit far off in the future. Give them a child welfare benefit. Make school supplies free and give a 1 year maternity leave. All of these would be cheaper and have better results. Other more general society wide changes like making housing and food more by building enough housing will also make someone more likely to have children.
A. I'm not from the USA B. What I said are all better ways to incentivise births. C. The argument wasn't over whether men would accept it or not it was whether or not they brought it in to incentivise births, which they didn't. The reason that many countries have lower retirement ages is simply because women were not always full participants in the workforce, so it was never expected of them to work until they physically couldn't. You just made the idea it was to incentivise births up.
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u/no1spastic 6d ago
That makes no sense. They already get time off when they have the kid. Why do they then need to work fewer years at the end of the career? Lengthen maternity leave if you want, but I see no correlation between child birth and your ability to work past 60.