Why do women's rights matter when it comes to controlling population growth?
a. men always want more children than women do, and if women have no power, they don't get a choice.
b. women with an education and career won't have children.
c. empowering women gives them control over their own reproduction and they typically will chose to postpone having children.
d. women generally make the major family decisions.
e. there is no way for men to control their own reproduction.

The correct answer is option C.

Explanation:

Empowering women provides them with the power to decide over their own reproduction and they usually should have the choice to postpone having children. All women should possess the right to autonomy and choice of reproduction.  

Women should possess the right and social accountability to decide about when and how to have children and should possess the right to decide about how many to have, no women can be forced to bear a child or should be inhibited from doing so against her desire.  

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