Rebecca Traister

During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad idea. Those prime childbearing years - mid-twenties to early forties - overlap precisely with prime professional years. This is when employees are most attractive to new employers, when they should be able to zip up ladders with the most alacrity.

American Author

Marcia Gay Harden

I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.

American Actress

Stephanie Coontz

Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence.

Alissa Quart

There's no better example of how to lead a difficult employee than to have a child. You have another kind of knowledge from your children that's actually applicable outside of childbearing.

American Writer

Beth Ditto

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

American Musician

Jennifer Weiner

I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage.

Tammy Duckworth

I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.

John J. McLaughlin

There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing.

American Journalist

Andrea Dworkin

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

American Critic

Norman Mailer

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

American Novelist

Used to indicate a specific time in a woman's life when she can have children.

Life Stage Reference

Often discussed in health-related contexts, focusing on fertility and pregnancy.

Health Considerations

Be aware that childbearing topics can be personal and culturally sensitive.

Cultural Sensitivity

When used as an adjective, it emphasizes a direct relation to the physical aspects of pregnancy.

Medical Context

It relates specifically to women or female-bodied individuals.

Gender Specific

Can imply limitations or changes in regular activities due to pregnancy.

Activity Limitations

 and one of them was this need to protect people from becoming victims of medical research without informed consent. So some much-needed guidelines or rules were set into place, and part of that was this desire to protect women of childbearing age

Why Medicine Often Has...

 Because of better genetic testing, delayed childbearing, increased accessibility and diminishing cost, it's not inconceivable that artificial baby making via IVF and related techniques could outpace natural reproduction in years to come.