THE EUROPEAN UNION’S executive body urged Germany last week to discourage women from being full-time mothers. Due to the demographic crisis caused by low fertility,  German will not be able to meet its pension and social welfare obligations, a European Commission report on the German economy stated. The commission proposed that more married women work, a solution which will only discourage child-rearing and exacerbate future labor shortages.

Germany has resisted feminist change, especially in the upper ranks of business. The European Commission advocated Scandinavian-style egalitarianism with more subsidized day care and tax incentives for dual-earner couples.

Just at a time when Europe should encourage the traditonal family at all costs, it proposes measures that ensure its further decline.

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Jesse Powell writes:

It’s worth pointing out, more women in the workforce does not make a country materially richer. The entire point of the EU telling Germany it should encourage more of its women to work is that more women working will increase German income, allowing it to afford its pension expenses. In the United States, women entering the workforce did not increase national income compared to the rate it was growing before that point. It coincided with a decrease in productivity gains that cancelled out the gain in the number of workers. 

This concept might be hard to grasp because one would assume more workers means more income; however, women disrupt the previously male work environment to such an extent that the loss of productivity among the male workers and managers is equal to whatever contribution the women themselves make. That is what the economic statistics from the United States indicate. 

In addition to there being no increase in national income compared to the prior trend before women entered the workforce, many other economic problems began after women entered the workforce such as the decrease in the savings rate and the increase in household debt. 

Certainly, women shouldn’t be in the workforce in large numbers as such employment competes with women’s household and childcare duties; but in addition, there is no national economic benefit either.

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