The falling birth rate is a huge issue of our time. What's the most effective way to tackle it? The Economist's answer in a Toolkit

How much is women’s work worth, how much is it recognised, and how important is it? And how the Italian Constitution addresses these issues?

A spirited and forthright testimony about having children late in life: getting pregnant after a certain age is not exactly simple

Manager Maura Satta Flores explains why it's fundamental that we start declaring “I'm a mum, I'm a dad!” in our profiles and our workplace.

Conservative solutions to declining birth rates are almost always linked to an antiquated view of women’s roles.

Putting the birth rate at the centre of public discourse from a secular standpoint: Eleonora Voltolina's TEDx talk “The Fertility Gap”

Procedures to combat infertility have allowed millions of people to become parents. They are not a solution to the fertility gap, though.

The right to family planning's been recognised within the sexual rights since the 1960s. And to be able to have a child when one wishes?