The Hill News

Few women are unaware of the proverbial biological clock. As a result, girls often have their educational and professional “plan” in place at an early age to ensure they can enjoy both a career and a family. On the flip side, men, who have the ability to have children late in life, often don’t feel the same pressure. While young women are busy advancing their plans under the loud tick-tock reminder of their biological limitations, many men are enjoying a bromance, video games, the social scene, and slowly getting around to a career.

It seems this difference in family-planning pressures might help explain the increasingly cavernous maturity gap between the genders. If so, recent studies about male fertility could start to change that.

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