Research on the Choice between Fertility and Career Development under the Universal Two Child Policy during the Post-Industrial Erain China

Abstract

With China's society entering the post-industrialera, the decline of fertility has become a serious issue for China’s sustainable economic growth. After the implementation of the universal two-child policy, career women inChinaare confronted with the contradiction between fertility and career development. In this context, we choose career women as the research object, and investigate its fertility intention and its impact on career development. The research on this issue is not only aimed at the consequence of“the universal two-child” policy, but also seek to further explore whether the possible “universal three-child” or “fully liberalization of birth policy” will still encounter this problem.We investigated656 career women in Zhejiang Province and found that their choice of fertility was mainly affected by several characteristics, such as different age, family status, educational background, the nature of the work, exist significant difference. The results of the factor analysis model showed that there are four major factors as workplace development factor, family atmosphere factor, national policy factor, social environment factor which affectfertility intentions of the career women. Finally, logistic regression model was established using four factors are deeply analyzed the various factors, especially the career development factors on the influence of career women fertility intentions.