The Contraceptive Pill: The Small Drug That Revolutionized Women's Lives • El Sol de Iquique

On this day in 1960, the FDA approved the first widely used birth control pill: Enovid. What seemed like a mere medical breakthrough eventually became a symbol of female freedom, allowing women to decide about their motherhood and their future. For many women, the pill was a revolution. For the first time, they could control their motherhood without relying on unreliable methods. The ability to decide when and how to have children opened up oppo…

A text by Frédérique Côté, intern in social work techniques Between 1946 and 1965, during the baby boom, several women married relatively young and had large families. Over time, certain rights were acquired, such as the legalization of the contraceptive pill in 1960, the notion of no-fault divorce and the modification of the marital duty that no longer obliges sexual intercourse within marriage. At the same time, we see the participation of wom…