UM TodayFertility rate – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 The HR Reporter: Many Canadian workers putting family on hold due to lack of work-life balance: survey https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/the-hr-reporter-many-canadian-workers-putting-family-on-hold-due-to-lack-of-work-life-balance-survey/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/the-hr-reporter-many-canadian-workers-putting-family-on-hold-due-to-lack-of-work-life-balance-survey/#respond Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:47:04 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=196187 Many Canadian workers putting family on hold due to lack of work-life balance: survey]]>

In addition, one-third of employed jobseekers (33%) say they have put starting a family on hold due to a lack of work-life balance. This includes 42% of Gen Z and 39% of Millennial jobseekers.  Canada’s fertility rate is at its lowest ever level, says Susan Prentice, professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba.  

“Women increasingly are choosing to have fewer children. Canada is not the only country — this is a pattern that we see all around the world as women’s education rates rise, employment rates rise and live births fall,” she says.

To read the full story, please visit The HR Reporter.

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