The Eager's Theory Of Population Control

Register to read the introduction… This was because poor women had a lot of children to accommodate their economic deficiencies. This argument of economic deficiencies, suggests that poverty is a probable reason why women were having so many children. Sharif argues that reducing poverty may go a long way in reducing fertility rates to control population growth. Women who have an education are more likely to have low childbearing rates than women without education. With fewer children, women have more time to devote to paid employment, small business ventures and even community work. The more educated women are the more likely they are to use some type of contraception and education has a direct decline in fertility. Woman’s education is positively associated to contraception knowledge and with smaller family sizes in developing countries. Through education women can delay marriage, have higher standard in life such as becoming high level professions. Sharif in his research on population control policy found that the affluent and educated take advantage of the free means to birth control, but the poor simply ignore the prescriptions. This means with a majority being the poor, population growth would increase despite the policies put in place. Therefore, education will economically empower women and reduce ongoing poverty and even increase national economic growth. In Africa for example, about 52% of the population are women and they assure household healthiness and they do most of the agricultural work that most African countries economies are based on. If the women are pregnant all the time and less educated their marginal productivity of labor is very …show more content…
The ICPD Program of Action recognized that men have preponderant power therefore to reach gender equality; developing nations need the men’s participation. Men are fathers, brothers and relatives of the very same women who are deprived access to resources therefore they should take part in the support of women. The UNDP in addition argues that policies that affect men should not be neglected, and this includes the use of contraceptives such as condoms, vasectomy and withdrawal. With both men and women working side to side population control methods through gender equality and women empowerment are more