“A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.”

American journalist, editor, and author

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They have worked across technology, culture, and media since the late 1990s, and are known for writing, editing, and shaping coverage at several major outlets. From 1999 to 2008, Newitz wrote the weekly syndicated column Techsploitation. They were culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian from 2000 to 2004, later became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2004, and co-founded Other magazine with Charlie Jane Anders. Newitz went on to lead io9 from 2008 to 2015, then its successor Gizmodo, and has also written for Popular Science, Film Quarterly, and Wired.