Why are Marriage & Fertility Plummeting in MENA?
The impermissibility of cross-gender friendships, and the permissibilty of divorce.
The Middle East, North Africa and Anatolia are witnessing a rapid decline in coupling and fertility. This should rock your priors. Attitudinal surveys indicate strong religosity, frequent religious attendance, daily prayer and strong support for gender segregation. Over the past 20 years, religosity has stayed strong. Female employment is around half the global average, just 16% in Egypt. Hardly a hotbed for liberalism.
So what’s going on?
