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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20d

Chile's total fertility rate has plummeted 42% over the past decade as rapid economic and social shifts spur women to delay or forgo motherhood. The drop outpaces the decline seen in many wealthier countries, leaving the South American country's fertility rate below Japan's. on.ft.com/421KObA

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · 20d

Very happy to contribute to this story on fertility decline in Chile published by @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/47Punmn

The great Chilean baby bust

Increased social mobility and high living costs contribute to 42% drop in fertility rate in past decade

on.ft.com

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · 24d

“Reading is not just a pastime or luxury, but a precondition of democratic life, one of the practices that keep debate and disagreement grounded, focused and productive” (Butler, 2024)

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very happy for this academic visit to Universidad de la República in Uruguay to present my work on structural infertility and discuss issues of fertility decline and reproductive justice in Latin America

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Aug 26

¿Who can afford to have many children? In a global context of fertility decline, big families are becoming a class privilege and a status symbol www.ft.com/content/a402...

The ultimate status symbol? A big family

A flex of uber-wealth in 2025 is multiple children — all the while preserving pre-parenthood lifestyle, interests and physique

www.ft.com

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Aug 4

Chile's plunging birth rate may foreshadow future in U.S. Excited to contribute to this very interesting article on fertility decline in Chile by @brianmannadk.bsky.social @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/08/03/n...

Chile's plunging birth rate may foreshadow future in U.S.

Chilean families are having only one child on average. U.S. birthrates are also dropping but it's unclear whether the U.S. will follow into the growing group of "very low" birthrate countries.

www.npr.org

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Aug 2

Join us for the online seminar ‘Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Human Mobility in the Global South: Shared Lessons and Challenges Across Africa and Latin America’ on 21 August. Register here: forms.gle/jYwTn8yqhH2x...

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Jul 21

We’re editing a book on reproductive justice in Latin America and invite extended abstracts (800 words) by Nov 30, 2025.

More info: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

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Feminist Economics @feministeconomics.bsky.social · Jul 21

📢 In the Global Reproductive Justice special issue, @martinayopo.bsky.social addresses constraints to reproductive justice by empirically analyzing how women negotiate childbearing amid structural infertilities in neoliberal Chile.
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📚 Full issue: tinyurl.com/2m7wejht

Structural Infertilities: Childbearing and Reproductive Justice in Chile

Issues regarding whether and when to have children have been at the forefront of feminist struggles for reproductive justice. Drawing on qualitative data produced through forty in-depth interviews,...

www.tandfonline.com

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Jul 19

We invite submissions for an edited book on reproductive justice in Latin America. We welcome extended abstracts of 800 words by November 30th, 2025. For more information: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Jul 17

Invitamos a enviar propuestas para un libro editado sobre justicia reproductiva en América Latina. El plazo para el envío de propuestas es el 30 de noviembre, 2025. Más info en: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Jul 15

Birth rates have dropped drastically in Chile. It could hold clues to U.S.'s future. Very happy to contribute to this story by @brianmannadk.bsky.social in @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/07/13/n...

Birth rates have dropped drastically in Chile. It could hold clues to U.S.'s future

Much of the attention on the world's plunging birth rate is on East Asian countries like Japan and South Korea. But Latin American countries, like Chile, are also seeing a decline in fertility.

www.npr.org

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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · Jul 13

My latest for NPR on the world’s accelerating demographic shift from Chile where many women are opting out of parenthood. www.npr.org/2025/07/13/n...

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Jul 8

Happy to contribute to this story on fertility decline in Chile by @aljazeera.com www.livetube.tv/news/video-c...

LiveTube News | Video: Chile's 'structural infertility': Deaths are outpacing births across Latin America

The number of women in Chile having children has dropped significantly. It has the lowest birth rate in Latin America, a region where motherhood is plummeting faster than anywhere else. Al Jazeera’s ...

www.livetube.tv

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · May 18

Si no redistribuimos los roles y responsabilidades de cuidado entre hombres y mujeres, no vamos a lograr subir nuestra tasa de natalidad. Eso es así de simple. Mi entrevista en @latercera.com www.latercera.com/que-pasa/not...

Martina Yopo, socióloga: “La maternidad en Chile se ha desnaturalizado” - La Tercera

Esta académica de la Universidad Católica detalla cuáles serán los principales desafíos que afrontará el país ante esta transformación social que implica la menor tasa de natalidad en la historia del ...

www.latercera.com

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · May 14

Very excited that our article ‘Reproductive waithood: An exploratory cohort study of changes in the transition to motherhood in Chile’ has been published in Advances in Life Course Research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reproductive waithood: An exploratory cohort study of changes in the transition to motherhood in Chile

Waithood is a growing global phenomenon as more women are delaying childbearing and becoming mothers later in life. However, little is known about cha…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · May 7

Very proud of my first book! More than two years of work editing this wonderful volume with 25 chapters on the current challenges of motherhood in Chile. A must read to understand why the country has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Apr 28

¿Por qué en Chile nacen cada vez menos niños? Todas y todos muy invitados al lanzamiento de mi libro ‘Maternidades: desafíos actuales de género, familia y fertilidad’ editado por el Fondo de Cultura Económica, el jueves 8 de mayo a las 19:00 en el GAM

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Apr 5

Promover la natalidad no puede ser a costa de la autonomía sexual y reproductiva. Mi entrevista para Cooperativa sobre baja natalidad en Chile m.cooperativa.cl/noticias/sit...

Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thank you, Rishita and the other editors of this spectacular special issue, for carefully curating such wonderful work on global reproductive justice

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · Mar 26

Special Issue on "Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics" is IN PRESS!

I learnt so much (as a non-economist, as a scholar) from our incredible contributors & from my enormously talented co-guest editors @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Prof Sigle (LSE).

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · Mar 26

the brilliant @martinayopo.bsky.social draws on rich, qualitative data to explore structural infertilities in neoliberal Chile, demonstrating how privatisation, erosions of protections, increased costs, feminisation of care shape reproductive decision-making. doi.org/10.1080/1354... 5/

Structural Infertilities: Childbearing and Reproductive Justice in Chile

Issues regarding whether and when to have children have been at the forefront of feminist struggles for reproductive justice. Drawing on qualitative data produced through forty in-depth interviews,...

doi.org

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Mar 17

New special issue out, with impressive team of editors

Global Reproductive Justice: A New Agenda for Feminist Economics?

“Reproductive justice framework challenges framings of reproductive rights centered on non-interference and the right to choose”

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Global Reproductive Justice: A New Agenda for Feminist Economics?

This special issue focuses on reproductive justice (RJ) as a framework for feminist research and activism. The introduction provides an overview of when and why the RJ framework was developed, outl...

www.tandfonline.com

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Mar 19

Looks fantastic! Could please share the link to the book?

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Mar 13

Muchas gracias, Pato