The government has tried to do some things but, short of more affordable daycare and a complete shift in values/culture around work and gender roles, it’s not going to happen. There is progress legally on the work hours front, but people will still just work off-the-clock overtime at a lot of places out of social pressure. Most of the job opportunities are also in the bigger cities where daycare is a lottery system with certain weighting based on parents’ income, employment, etc. It’s not enough.

I recently moved to the countryside, but I have a fully-remote job. My wife does as well (at least for the moment; we’re not sure if it will last, but I can support us both). However, most people are chasing opportunity and it does not exist out here unless you want to be a farmer or factory worker which is not a glamorous life. As more people move out, tax revenue drops and services also go away. It creates a feedback loop. There needs to be serious effort to reverse it at the national level, but I don’t see that happening at all.