TOKYO -- Fertility rates rose in 80% of major developed nations last year but fell in Japan and South Korea. Many experts blame the two countries' persistently declining birthrates on the lack of gender equality in sharing housework and parental duties.
Fertility rates continue to sag in Japan and South Korea even as many of their OECD peers have reversed 10-year declines.
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