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I do think it is hard to separate the pill's entrance into the market with the other civil rights movements going on at the time though. I do know it was the end of the baby boom because my brother is a Boomer and I am not. His high school class had over 1000 kids in it. Mine was 700. The one below me was 400.
The attempted passing of the Equal Right's Amendment and the significant push for equal working rights happened shortly after the pill came on the market. It really is hard to separate them. But the pill does allow us much more independence, choice and freedom to choose when we become mothers.
ETA: My mom was a bank teller when she got pregnant with my brother in 1961. She was told she would have to quit when she started showing and wearing maternity clothes. Yes, that was legal. Yes, it happened all the time. We have come a long way baby.
Last edited by AGDee; 10-17-2012 at 07:26 AM.
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