{"id":3057,"date":"2024-11-01T22:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T05:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2024-11-01T22:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T05:24:05","slug":"why-abortion-referendums-are-also-about-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/why-abortion-referendums-are-also-about-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why abortion referendums are also about the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Access to birth control lets women &#8220;plan for careers rather than jobs&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8217;70s.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<div class=\"ad-footer \">Goldin ties it to the birth control pill, which became widely available around 1970. It allowed women to delay childbirth and led to what she frames as a <a href=\"https:\/\/dash.harvard.edu\/handle\/1\/2624453\">revolution<\/a> in their personal economics. It also made it easier for women to delay marriage, which in turn, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/goldin\/files\/the_quiet_revolution_that_transformed_womens_employment_education_and_family.pdf\">Goldin wrote<\/a>, meant that they &#8220;could be more serious in college, plan for an independent future, and form their identities <em>before<\/em> marriage and family.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/10\/30\/nx-s1-5172193\/abortion-economy-state-ballot-2024\">National Public Radio, Inc.<\/a><\/div>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to birth control lets women &#8220;plan for careers rather than jobs&#8221; 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Why abortion referendums are also about the economy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/why-abortion-referendums-are-also-about-the-economy\/\" aria-label=\"More on Why abortion referendums are also about the economy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,172,295,461,131,439,137,302,413],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2024-election","tag-abortion-bans","tag-anti-woman","tag-birth-control-harder-to-get","tag-contraception","tag-economic-harm","tag-gop","tag-griswold","tag-womens-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}