It's not about the money. Money has an effect, yes, but it's a part of something bigger. Women are genetically programmed to mate up. Not down. And not even across. Up. If she doesn't regard a man as superior to her, she generally doesn't want to have his babies. What this means is that there is an extremely simple control dial on fertility. More male power and status = more babies. More female power and status = less babies. Yes, it really is that simple. Why? Because every species has a mating ritual, and can only breed if they can carry it out. That's why you can breed rats and chickens in cages, but not pandas. Different mating ritual. And a critical element of the human mating ritual is "male impresses female". Not charms. Not bribes. Definitely not respects. Impresses. So, if you take power, wealth, and status away from men, and give it to women, you are just plain reaching for the controls and turning down the fertility dial. If you let men keep power, wealth and status — you don't have to give it to them because they're the ones who create it — fertility goes up. The fertility crisis is really the equality crisis. This idea might horrify you. You might have been taught all your life that everyone is equal, or must be, and anything else is unfair. Well, have you looked around you at universe? Unfairness is baked into the life cycle of every living organism, not mention the food chain. Evolutionary processes don't care about fairness. They care what works. Perhaps someday, we will be able to code DNA as easily as we code C++, and can decide what we want our instincts to be. But until that day, we are faced with a choice. 1. Stop using the political, legal, and mass media processes to force female equality, if not outright female supremacy, on the first world. Or 2. Die out and be replaced by third world retards, who will stay on this planet fighting wars with increasingly rusty AK47s and then spears, until the next asteroid comes along.