“Women having careers doesn’t stop them from having kids.”
You just hate men!!! (just kidding, nice to have a civil discussion)
Of course women have choices now. They can work, and not have kids; they can work and have kids; they can work and delay having kids and then have very few kids.
The problem isn’t with the individual decisions, but it’s with the collective effect. Before women were widely in the workforce, there was not a whole lot to do, and women had kids early, and had a lot of them. Once they could work, for many (not all, of course), kids become a career burden. When you add up the total effect, you find birth rates take a dive. In the US, the main reason we’re not going down yet is immigration. We’re also helped because we still have some people (Christians and practicing Catholics) that believe in large families. In Europe, they’re basically flat, but their native populations are in a dive. It’s Muslim immigration there that’s hold up their populations - which is not good.
In Asia it’s even worse - before women could work, they had no chose but to marry and have kids. Now that they can work, they look at the guys over there and say “why do I want to spend time with one of them” and simply never marry and never even come close to being married. The guys aren’t much better - they spend their days playing video games and barely realize that life is passing them by. In those countries they are either losing population, or about to.
At the same time the countries where women are treated like dirt still have hugely growing populations. So the bottom line is that the West is getting killed in the demographic war, and that will cannot end well...and there’s not much that can be done about it now (it’s too late).
If it continues that way, things will get worse.
There’s not much that can be done about it now
Of course, there are things that can be done: ban abortion, make it easier to raise big families, and severely restrict immigration, just to name 3.