Women Working: What’s the Pill Got to Do With It?
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- At the turn of the century, it was rare for a woman to get a college degree or join, and stay in, the workforce. One trailblazer was Katharine McCormick. She was the second woman ever to graduate from MIT, a suffragist, advocate for women’s education, and later philanthropist. McCormick was also a staunch supporter of birth control, going so far as to smuggle contraceptives into the United States at a time when they were illegal or highly regulated.
In the 1950s, the birth control pill was extremely controversial. Funding for its development had been pulled. McCormick stepped in and, over time, contributed nearly $23 million (in today’s dollars) of her own money to research efforts. Her financial involvement was instrumental in achieving FDA approval and widespread acceptance of “the pill.”
But what does the the pill have to do with female education or women working? For the very first time, women were in control over if and when they would have children.
Since the mid-1960s, shortly after the pill was approved as a contraceptive in the United States, female education and labor force participation rates have skyrocketed. With the ability to control when they will have children, women are able to better plan for their academic and professional future. We may take it for granted today, but half a century ago, the pill changed the game for working women.
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Why is it that womans participation increased in healthcare, law and dentistry and not math, computer science and engineering? I'd love a video on this.
Gender differences. It's not exactly a mystery, Occam's razor and intuition will get you to the right answer without much effort. On average, men are more interested in things, women are more interested in people.
This video made me cry... thank you professor!
Thank you for letting us know! It's a great story.
-Roman
Wow, I'd never heard of McCormick before this video, but she's actually so amazing :) Thanks for spreading her story!
It's great that you realize The Pill’s effect on our economy, but your video denies the truth of The Pill’s negative health, mental, and psychological effects on women and that it negates the sanctity of life
This is a great video with depressing comments.
I love your videos but To many SOUNDS effects and background music DISTRACTS the viewer from the professor's message.
After the announcement of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Claudia Goldin
This video is really great. It touches me and helps me to open up a deeper insight into women for the economy. Thank professors!
And how they lead to a dying society due to low birthrates, and subsequent substituion of a population for a more dominant less feminist one.
@@pedromeneses5661 Men should have the rights to stop paying child support.
Shout out to Katharine McCormick 👍🏾
Ehh, it's a little neat and tidy for me. The connection of the same states being permissive towards birth control and also permissive towards women's engagement in skilled jobs doesn't convince me of a causal relationship: it could easily be that both these phenomena are merely caused by a third variable, such as general progressive versus conservative politics.
Likewise, the notion that birth control keeps people in school and leads to skilled labor isn't a silver bullet either. From what I recall of talks about global population, it's closer to the other way around. If you want to keep a population from growing - in other words, stop young women having so many children - one of the biggest ways to do that is keep them in schools longer. Then they're likely to start hunting for partners when their brains are more fully developed, and when they are less dependent on the partners they find for survival due to their marketable skills, hence they have more sway over their own family planning. To say nothing of having largely skipped several fertile years, of course.
I wonder why this video has such seriously low views.
The pill has major dysgenic effects.
Funny how it took a pill when one always existed --- don't fuck.
Fantastic!
The pill and its effects on society and the economy are some of the GREATEST things from the 20th century. #liberty
Men should have the rights to stop paying child support.
Men should have the rights to stop paying child support.
touched
by who?
A single pill 💊 impact
Booo
And as we all know, female happiness rates are skyrocketing now when they have less time for family an leisure and more for work and shallow relationships.
Great work Katharine, you looking like ghoul was the first sign more women should be just like you.