This is more reverse natural selection... i.e. the most intelligent career driven people seem much more likely to want to go kid free.
Having evolved consciousness, we now have the ability to spread ideas, inventions, values, etc. -- memes if you will. This is why humanity has beat all other species, and what drives progress on a societal scale. Memes evolve much faster than genes.
The intelligent career driven people are busy replicating memes -- inventions, discoveries, institutions, influence, etc. The best memes survive and evolve. Is it better for humanity to discover penicillin or preserve a single bloodline?
Here's just one paper:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/585126?seq=1#page_scan_tab_conte...
Individual women who happen to be relatively well known have nothing useful to tell you about social trends.