Gender demographics

Faith

It would be really interesting to get a sense of the demographics of the childfree posters here. My sense is that men tend to assume all women want children, while in reality I know a lot more women who are 100% sure about being childfree than I do men. I'm curious about what a poll would show up. While there are loads of variables we could explore, I'm going to start off with a very basic gender identity poll here.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

Male here, I wouldn't assume all women want children but if I had to guess at the ratio of people who don't want children, I would've guessed it would be more men than women.

But so far this poll is proving me wrong ! I'm impressed

magicbastarder

Men don't have to deal with the issue in the same way as women though, and don't have to justify their choice to others nearly as much, so based on that, I'd expect women to 'identify' as child free more than men.

cee_jay

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

Male here, I wouldn't assume all women want children but if I had to guess at the ratio of people who don't want children, I would've guessed it would be more men than women.

But so far this poll is proving me wrong ! I'm impressed

I think it is more an upfront issue for women as we know there is a timer on our fertility, which men don't have. By a certain age, the decision to have children is taken from us, and we often receive comments such as "time is running out!".
Women also have to face the realities of pregnancy, and possibly putting their careers on hold for at least 6 months afterwards.

R.D. aka MR.D

I think women might be more likely to identify with the label of Childfree. My husband used to call us DINKs and that was a label he liked.

I think the expectations on women in society to have kids leads us childfree women to seek a label and a grouping to belong to.