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Nearly half of university educated women aged between 32 and 46 are career driven and are childless, a study has revealed.

Research carried out by the Center for Work-Life Policy – a New York-based think-tank – has revealed that 43 per cent of university-educated women from Generation X were childless.

This is despite about three-quarters of them being in long-term relationships and living with their partners.

Supplementary research in Britain reveals similar trends.

It is unclear why these women have opted out of having children, particularly as the majority of those interviewed were either married or cohabiting.

Ninety-one percent of the surveyed women in relationships were part of dual-earning couples, and 19 per cent out-earned their husbands. Similarly, 74 per cent considered themselves ambitious, compared to 65 per cent of women from the baby-boom generation.

Gen X women were born in the wake of the feminist revolution, and many had mothers who pushed them to break into previously male-dominated professions, the research found.

Sources

• The Mirror
• Herald-Sun
• Image: The Age

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