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There are known differences between sperm cells with an X chromosome and those with a Y chromosome (Y chromosome cells swim faster but X chromosome cells live longer if I remember correctly). You can very easily change the natal gender ratio if you come up with a procedure or something that selectively kills those sperm cells with a Y chromosome.
By doing this you can e.g. change the societal gender ratio to something like 2 women for every man, and at that point the replacement rate drops from 2 to 1.5 children per woman.
No artificial wombs even needed!
While it might be an appealing fantasy - yes! men will be so scarce that women will be fighting over getting to be my concubine, even if I'm not the highest quality man out there! - I think in reality it will be more like "instead of 2 women for every man, it will be 6 women for the handsome rich guy, no women for the average guy or 1 average woman, which he will bitch about because he expected to get a nymphomaniac supermodel in this Brave New World as he was promised".
This sort of surplus of women to men happens after wars, but post-First World War and post-Second World War seem to have had different outcomes; after the First World War, there was the generation of Surplus Women, and the British government set up emigration schemes to have unmarried women migrate to the colonies where there was an imbalance of excess men, but after the Second World War marriage and employment rates for women seem to have gone up.
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I suspect that idea is fully-automated-luxury-space-communism-complete. Post sexual revolution, women choose single motherhood over being a 30th-percentile man's first wife, so I don't think they will be lining up to be a median-quality man's second wife either. Someone is going to be subsidising all those single mothers, and it won't be the married mothers.
Citation needed. Most 30th percentile men end up paired off with 30th percentile woman, regardless of whether or not they marry. Single motherhood is by no means the choice of a majority of women in any place I'm aware of.
Looking at the US, Census report saying that 27% of children are involved in a child support claim. (This includes divorced and never-married parents) Fairly standard data showing 40% non-marital childbirth. (This includes unmarried cohabiting parents)
Essentially all single motherhood is a choice by the woman (women control fertility in jurisdictions with legal contraception and abortion, and file the vast majority of divorces where children are involved in all no-fault-divorce jurisdictions).
So I am comfortable that c. 30% of American women are choosing single motherhood. (Figures in Western Europe are slightly less, but not much). And anecdotally most of them are doing so due to the poor quality of the men available to them.
This is what happens when you get rid of male privilege, the boys just can't keep up, smh.
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While the data isn't quite the same as what you claim, the figures are higher than I expected myself. Thank you for providing them.
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