This is just a chain of events that I predict.
Situation 1. If birth rates are far below replacement rates, we can see populations very quickly fall in a few centuries, in western countries.
This will mean that western countries will get outnumbered by non Western countries. Be vulnerable to war, possibly lose those wars and women's rights will be changed with it. High chance defeated nations become Muslim countries as a result.
Situation 2. Western countries "fix" their declining birth rate through immigration. Instead of producing people internally, outsource people produced externally. This would mean importing people from countries with less rights for women. This could easily change the politics of these countries to a direction which reduces women's rights, both through cultural change and voting. A majority of immigrants will probably be single men looking for work which makes me think it would tend to go that way. Remember think centuries from now
Situation 3 Western countries force fix their birth rate. The force of government is used to apply carrots or sticks to increase the birthrate. This could likely involve forcing people to have children, or else go to jail. This is very plausible to happen in China (a non Western country). This will be enacted as governments realize how vulnerable the country is becoming because of its low population. In such a case women's rights as we know them are changed significantly.
Situation 4. Western countries fix birth rate voluntarily. This could happen in a variety of ways, a new wave of feminism that emphasizes responsibility as a citizen which includes raising children. Political and economic chance that makes it more appealing to have kids. Social change which results in most men and women respecting each other again. Etc. This is the only one which can preserve women's rights / freedoms as we know the today.
This is just a prediction of possible futures. And just an observation that unless women in western countries can somehow solve this and create situation 4 (and I think women are the main deciders of how many kids a country has). Then one of the other situations is probably going to happen, and women's rights will be lost.
So, it kind of comes down to the responsibility of women. Women now have more freedom over their lives. But it has resulted in a major population decline. And I don't think that can continue indefinitely without one of these scenarios occuring which result in a change to women's rights or choosing to have more children.
WDYT?
If you start looking into methodology you'll often find that "official statistics" are heavily manipulated to push a specific narrative. For example, you'll often hear that the US is only 57-60% white today, BUT if you look at the methodology you'll find that the way they determine this has been manipulated since the 50s. Pre, I think it was 1950 or 1960 census, the "White" category, included everyone who was of European decent, regardless of origin. This included, Mexicans and other hispanics (who're 86-90% Spanish genetically depending on origin), as well as certain middle eastern groups who were of greek descent (most egyptians are actually of greek descent for the example). They only really changed this in order to push a narrative that white people are slowly becoming a minority. If you use the old, more accurate methodology, the US is something like 80-85% white, which is roughly on par with what it was 70+ years ago.
This applies to everything, race, religion, birth rates, political affiliation, etc.
They try to say the Christianity is dying and that women are overwhelmingly liberal, but in reality Christianity is growing due to a combination of higher birth rates among more religious people, and more people converting to Christianity from other religions. Likewise, women aren't nearly as liberal as they'd have you believe, the overwhelming majority fall into the "apolitical" category. IE, they don't care about politics or have strong opinions about any political topic, including abortion, and all the other "women's rights" crap you hear. For the majority of people, economic stuff is FAR more important to them, since it affects their daily life.
And of course, like I mentioned in my original comment, birth rate data is just outright inaccurate, because they're using a methodology incompatible with modern societal standards. It'd work for third world crapholes in Africa where 12 year olds still marry and give birth, but in the modern western world it makes no sense. It's like doing a study on meat consumption and then intentionally including vegans.
It just doesn't make sense to include an entire group that make up roughly 10-20% of the data set (depending on country) that you're actively TRYING to prevent from doing the thing the study is about. Anyone who's taken a basic primary school science class knows that violates the basic tenant of the scientific method in that you have to have no outside forces acting on the observed data in order to maintain accuracy.
Very interesting. I knew how some statistics are manipulated but didn't know specifically about these demographics stats.
And Yes, I do think a lot of women are apolitical. I think a lot of immigrants fall into this category, like the large number of international students in the US don't know much about US politics at least.