Reproductive stories of women living in the Plaza de la Revolution, Havana Province, Cuba

Currently the sustained worldwide decline in fertility has attracted more attention to some aspects of women’s reproductive stories and their social characteristics. This work is based on data from a survey of 1,200 women born between 1942-1953, living in Plaza de la Revolución, an urban area located in the north-central of Havana Province, capital of Cuba. The objective of this paper is analyze in-depth reproductive histories of the women who had children after the age of 30 and women who had no children, highlighting elements that may shed light on the possible choices and constraints that shaped the career of reproductive women interviewed. What makes them different of the rest of the sample that was characterized by an early age of childbearing?