Why abortion referendums are also about the economy

Access to birth control lets women “plan for careers rather than jobs”

Claudia Goldin last year became the first woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences as an individual, rather than as part of a team. She makes the sharpest case for how the ability to choose when to have children was the main driver behind a dramatic increase in the number of women entering the workforce and pursuing careers in the 1960s and ’70s.