The western countries women are becoming more and more reluctant to give birth to babies.
However, the male’s status in society remains as strong as it ever has in recent years. The birth rates increased during 20’s century but it starts to decrease over these last two decades. In the year 2000, as an example, the birth rate remained at around 1%. There are even some negative birth rates in other countries. Birth rates dropped to its lowest point that has never been seen in the society. It also has impacts on male in the society especially young man, and it might have some connection with unemployment rates as well.
(The question comes with a line chart;) It talks about the child birth rates in European countries.
In the beginning of the lecture, the speaker mentioned that the rate decreases to historical low in about 1.1-1.2% in recent years.
The reason is that women in Europe are unwilling to give birth especially those young women under 30 years old.
At the end of the lecture, he concluded that the phenomenon would affect man’s position of life, which will increase their unemployment rate.