Contraceptive Pill
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The contraceptive pill had profound social consequences. Everyone agrees with that. But \\u2013 as Tim Harford explains \\u2013 the pill wasn\\u2019t just socially revolutionary. It also sparked an economic revolution, perhaps the most significant of the late twentieth century. A careful statistical study by the Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz strongly suggests that the pill played a major role in allowing women to delay marriage, delay motherhood and invest in their own careers. The consequences of that are profound.
Producer: Ben Crighton\\nEditors: Richard Knight and Richard Vadon
(Image: Oral contraceptive pill, Credit: Areeya_ann/Shutterstock)
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