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Evaluation
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Marks, Lara. Sexual Chemistry: A History of the
Contraceptive Pill. Yale CN. Yale University Press. 2001.
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This was my most important
source. It surveys many aspects of the Pill’s impact. It was a great source
of ideas for directions in which I could take my research. Marks is the
preeminent academic working in the UK on this subject. Her bibliography
helped with pointing me towards other sources that could be used to measure
the Pill’s effect on women’s choices.
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Akerlof et al. ‘An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock
Childbearing.’ Quarterly Journal of Economics. Oxford University Press.
1996.
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In this paper Akerlof et al
approach the impact of the Pill from a unique standpoint. It was interesting
to see how the invention of the Pill can be interpreted to have an adverse
effect on the welfare of women, especially to those who don’t actually take
it. Again the paper is from a reputable source and is therefore to be
reliable. The data is focused on the US however, so I had to take
consideration when using the theory by backing it up from evidence in the UK.
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Botting et al. Trends in fertility and contraception in
the last quarter of the 20th century. Demography and Health. National
Statistics. 2010.
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This paper was incredibly
useful in providing data on the popularity of the Pill. It provided data on
the popularity of different contraceptives that allowed for me to trace the
pills raise and decline in popularity. Again it is from a reliable
governmental source. When combined with the theories put forward by Marks it
was very interesting to see the rise in popularity of sterilisation- an
curious impact of the Pill invention.
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Bolton, Paul. Education: Historical Statistics. Social
& General Statistics. Parliamentary Briefing Paper. 2012.
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This paper produced by the UK
government provided good basic data on the gender split of education among
other things. It is a very reliable source, not based on sampling. It is
aggregate UK data.
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Pissarides, Christopher.
Pietro, Garibaldi. Olivetti, Claudia. ‘Women in the Labour Force: how well is
Europe doing?’ Women at work: an
economic perspective. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 9-120 .2005
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This was a crucial source when
looking at women’s employment data. There is very little academic literature
on the subject so it was important that I could collect specific data,
especially on the impact of having children and the importance of a
professional university degrees. One of the countries leading economists the
data Pissaredes presented can be seen as very accurate, however my inability
to access more recent sources means that I am stuck with data from 8 years
ago as opposed to 2.
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Cohen, L. ‘The ‘pill’, promiscuity, and venereal disease.’ British Journal
of Venereal Diseases. 1970. Vol. 46. Iss. 2. 108-11.
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A British Medical journal
article from 1970 this source is useful both in the data it presents as well
as when looking at the kind of attitudes people had towards oral
contraception a decade after its invention. The report also documents the
changing class type of the women using the pill, which was crucial part IV of
the report.
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‘Households and families.’
Social Trends. ONS. Vol. 40. Iss. 1.2010. 13-26.
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This is a reliable government
source which I used to see the breakdown of household and family size. Social
trends is a flagship publication by the Office of National Statistics.
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Office for National Statistics.
Frequently asked questions: births and
fertility. August 2011.
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Again a reliable governmental
source that quotes aggregate UK data. Recently edited.
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Cartwright, Ann. “Family Size, contraceptive practice and
fertility intentions in England and Wales 1967-1975.” Family Planning
Perspectives. 128-37. General Household Survey. London. 1979.
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Ann Cartwright is another
recognised academic in her field. Her article was invaluable to me not only
because it provided in-depth data on family size, and contraceptive practice
it gave a human side to the report. By providing statistics, used through sampling,
on women’s attitudes towards their most recent pregnancies I was able to
incorporate human evidence into my report, making the reader see how
important the oral contraceptive was to women in the 1960s and 70s. Published
in 1979 it is limited, however, as although it provides in-depth data on the
10 years before that it would have been interesting to see the effect of the
Pill in the long term.
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Goldin, Claudia and Lawrence,
Katz. ‘The power of the pill: Oral
contraceptives and women’s career and marriage decisions. Journal of
Political Economy 110 (4). Harvard University.2002.
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Goldin and Katz and leading
academics on the impact of the pill. Published in the journal of political
economy their theories are now commonly known in the field. This report is
mainly focused on the impact of the Pill in the US- a fact I talk about in
the report itself. I used the theories it presented and backed them up using
data and evidence from the UK to find that oral contraceptives did indeed
have a big impact of women’s career and marriage decisions.
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Siegel Watkins, Elizabeth. On the Pill: A Social History of Oral
Contraceptives. John Hopkins University Press. 2001
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Important piece of academic
literature when looking at the social importance of the Pill. Was mainly used
a guide to what I should be researching as the book revolves around the
impact of the Pill on the US. One of the two most acclaimed books in it’s
field.
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