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Apr 22, 2010 · Sex, even within marriage, was immoral unless aimed at having a baby. Fear of pregnancy was a powerful check on promiscuity — and information about contraception was treated as the equivalent of...
- Nancy Gibbs
May 6, 2010 · Fifity years after the Pill was first approved in the U.S., Jenni Murray tells in a very personal memoir how it coincided with a cataclysmic turning point in British culture.
Fifty years ago, birth-control pills gave women control of their bodies, while making it easy to forget their basic biology—until in some cases, it’s too late.
Nov 11, 2014 · In 2002, the Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz published an analysis of the impact of the pill, and found that it “directly lowered the costs of engaging in long-term career...
Oct 2, 2015 · The four people alluded to in the title are Margaret Sanger, the mother of the birth control movement, who believed that women could not enjoy sex or enjoy freedom until they could control when...
May 21, 2017 · But at the beginning of the 1970s - equipped with the pill - women surged into all these courses. At first, women made up a fifth of the class, then a quarter. By 1980 they often made up a...
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May 1, 2010 · The pill was a toddler in 1963, when the National Maternity Hospital opened a “marriage guidance clinic” offering advice only on the rhythm method, while pharmaceutical companies were introducing...
