Birth control and the twentieth-century woman

The focus of this effort is to assert a relationship between available, reliable birth control and the cultural advancement for women which occurred in the latter half of twentieth-century America. Historical information from the first half of the century related to birth control as well as on the status of women pre-reliable, available birth control, is included to provide comparison. Standard methods were used to research scholarly work related to the topic. Since the advent of reliable reproductive technology in the 1960s, women appear to have made their most significant and sustained strides toward equality. This technology, which for the first time provided women with the means to control their reproduction, helped make cultural advancement and the possibility of equality a reality for women in the latter half of twentieth-century America.