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Three Good Fellows and Not Enough Babies: A Conversation with Demographer Nicolas Eberstadt | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Is There a Flight From the Workforce?

More young men women are qualified for military service but as Nick's work has shown, how qualified and willing to work period. This is not the sort of gender equality that I think we want to be seeing in the United States. About three million girls, women 25 to 54 have no children at home who are neither working, nor in educational training, and aren't married. And one of the kind of worrisome parts of this gender equality is that they are now starting to say that they take pain medication every day in about the same proportion that other guys do.

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