Synopsis

The 1950s witnessed a pivotal development in reproductive history: the advent of the oral contraceptive, a change that profoundly shaped the social landscape of the following decade. This transformation was immense. As Sylvia Clark, who remembers a world without the pill, notes, "Women began to see themselves for the first time in all of history as economically self-sustaining." The program explores the forces behind this shift, profiling the individuals who drove the pill's creation: biologist