Gosh, that is a mystery. If only one our nation’s most revered newspapers could ask literally any woman.
@briannawu there should be a corollary law to Betteridge's law, to describe the situation where a newspaper asks a question not because they want to know the answer but because they want to promote an idea that is largely contradicted by the actual answer.
@briannawu "a 2013 study into computer mediated communication [found] that headline questions posted to twitter increased click through rates in comparison to statement headlines"
So straight up saying "an economy in which kids are unaffordable and a culture where women are undervalued means women have fewer kids" won't get them the sweet, sweet engagement they crave.