Why the biological clock is a damaging patriarchal myth

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You won't believe what I'm about to tell you. Women don't have a "biological clock." That term was coined by journalist Richard Cohen in his misogynistic 1978 article "The Clock Is Ticking For The Career Woman." This article hits the two Ps (pseudoscience and patriarchy) and does what these silly Ps do best: rush women into motherhood and shame them for prioritizing their careers.

In the words of Kesha, "Tik tok on the clock but the party don't stop." Because for women, the party truly doesn't stop. That's why humans are one of the only mammals with menopause.

In fact, research is finding that MEN have a biological clock, and it begins ticking around age 35.

Sources:

• A Look at Your Fertility Timeline
• Andrology: Cumulative conception rate following intrauterine artificial insemination with husband's spermatozoa: influence of husband's age
• Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
• Fertility and the Aging Male
• Increasing paternal age is associated with delayed conception in a large population of fertile couples: evidence for declining fecundity in older men
• The 300-year-old fertility statistics still in use today
• Volitional determinants and age-related decline in fecundability: a general population prospective cohort study in Denmark

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