Rethinking of gender roles is a “prerequisite” for raising Japan’s birth rate, experts say soranews24.com

Panel says a reevaluation of how much housework and childcare Japanese men should do is necessary for reversing the country’s aging, shrinking population trend.
The average age of Japan’s population has been steadily climbing for quite some time now.
You have to go all the way back to 1974 for the last time Japan’s birthrate was above 2.0, meaning the country’s been getting older ever since.
Now, thought, more Japanese women than ever before are continuing to work, by choice or out of necessity, after marriage and having children.
The goal is raise Japan’s birthrate to 1.8, which would still be far off from the three-kids-per-woman target one Japanese politician floated earlier this year, but a big step up from the current 1.42.