Gender inequality in social institutions and its impact on fertility rates

• Main Author: Tan, Cassandra Gek Hui
• Other Authors: Premchand Varma Dommaraju
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70528
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Despite the various measures implemented by the government to encourage childbearing, the fertility rates in Singapore remains well below the replacement level fertility. Multiple studies have attributed the costs of raising children, women delaying marriage and childbearing, as the reasons behind t...