On the Pill: Changing the Course of Women's Education.

Autor/inn/en	Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F.
Titel	On the Pill: Changing the Course of Women's Education. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Pille: Der Kurswechsel in der Bildung von Frauen.
Quelle	In: The Milken Institute review, 3 (2001) Q2, S. 12-21 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungsbeteiligung; Bildungsexpansion; Lebensalter; Eheschließung; Familienplanung; Frau; Geschichte (Histor); Medizin; Schwangerschaft; Investition; Pharmazeutische Industrie; Karriereplanung; Hochschulbildung; Auswirkung; Einflussfaktor; Geschlechterverteilung; Prävention; Regulation; Weibliche Jugendliche; USA
Abstract	"The Pill - the female oral contraceptive - turned 40 last year. It is a middle-aged medical miracle. Slimmed down to contain between one-tenth and one-twentieth the progestin, and one-third to one-sixth the estrogen of Enovid, the original birth-control pill, it remains the contraceptive of choice of American women. Some 44 percent of nonsurgically contracepting women took The Pill in 1995, while 51 percent of those 15 to 24 years old used it as a contraceptive. Almost 80 percent of women now between 45 and 55 years old have taken The Pill at some point. In its December 1999 millennial issue, The Economist chose The Pill as the greatest science and technology advance of the 20th century. It has been credited with the resurgence of feminism in the 1960s, and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1970s. But no era of monumental social, political and economic change has a simple explanation. Major forces, with origins independent of The Pill, also had enormous impact on society in the late 1960s. The civil rights movement, for example, laid the foundations for the greater equality of women, while the war in Vietnam led to the expansion of the rights of youth. Our goal, though less grand than explaining the upheavals of the late 1960s, is grand nonetheless: understanding a part of the mid-20th century democratization of American society. It concerns fundamental change in the lives of women, and how the aspirations and career choices of young women were altered in the late 1960s. Real change in the economic and social status of women in the United States did not emanate simply from their increased participation in the paid labor force, for women have always worked. Rather, it came from their acceptance as equals in the most highly paid and demanding occupations - the professions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2024/1