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Do you believe the birth control pill was a major contributor to the advancement of women's economic freedom?
Five years after the introduction of the pill, 41 percent of “contracepting” women had a prescription, according to The Power of the Pill, a 2002 analysis by Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz. Today, four out of every five sexually active women in the U.S. have taken oral contraceptives at some point in their lives. As birth control became widely available, women began delaying marriage and investing in their education without fear of pregnancy or commitment to abstinence, which led to higher female employment rates and better careers. As of 2011, when the U.S. Department of Labor last released data, more than half of employed women worked in skilled professions. While factors such as feminism and antisexism laws also helped, the Harvard study found that the pill has had a singularly profound effect in advancing women’s economic freedom.
BloombergBusinessweek 12/04/2014: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-04/bi...
Original NBER paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w7527.pdf
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- YahoouserLv 76 years agoFavorite Answer
Absolutely correct with choice and a education women have been able to move into the work fields of many occupations and not just a lady in the launder mat if you know what I mean.
But hospital administrators
fiancé positions
and corporation C.E.O."s
Just look at yahoo Marissa Meyers
Hewlet Packard's C.E.O.
and so many others
- Anonymous6 years ago
No. The pill is not a welfare state.
Obviously women should be free to opt out of work, especially when they are raising kids-
But WORKING while being on the pill in America is NOT ECONOMIC FREEDOM!!
- Anonymous6 years ago
Yes, having a child weighs down everyone involved, especially the woman. That doesn't mean we should be forced to pay for it through taxes though.
- Anonymous6 years ago
Yes. It is partially freedom from themselves that advanced their cause.
But thats not really advancing freedom, its just redefining cause and effect.
Either way, it is great how technology can open up possibilities like this.
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