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避孕药自1960年开始使用,今天世界上采用避孕药进行避孕的妇女估计有近亿人。哈佛大学一项对避孕药使用者的长期跟踪研究表明,避孕药的普及使整个社会发生了改变。避孕药使怀孕随机性降低,让女性推迟了婚期和生育,帮助她们得到了更多的受教育机会,这对整个经济产生了重大影响:它不仅提高了女性在劳动力市场所占比例,延长了女性工作时间,并且还促使诸多女性向诸如法律和医学那样由传统男性所主导的职业和一些高薪职业进军。
Contraceptives have been in use since 1960 and there are an estimated 100 million women in the world who use contraceptives for contraception. A long-term follow-up study of contraceptive users at Harvard University shows that the spread of contraceptives has changed society as a whole. Contraceptives reduce the randomness of pregnancies, delaying marriage and childbirth for women, helping them to get more education, which has a significant impact on the economy as a whole: not only does it increase the share of women in the labor market, but it also prolongs Working hours for women and also motivating many women to march into traditional, men-dominated and well-paid careers, such as law and medicine.