History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 2002 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Pill
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The idea
In nineteen sixty the birth control pill won the approval of the Food and Drug Administration, and within five years some six million women were using it.
In practice
Women able to delay childbearing and so freer to work, study and marry later, the anchor explains.
Where people slip
Digital History records that women's full-time earnings averaged only about sixty percent of men's in nineteen sixty.
Your place on the trail
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