Elizabeth Gregory's blog
Helen of Troy: Some Women’s History Should Stay That Way
March 28, 2011 - 10:12am (Print)
Women's history month 2011 provides a special kind of lesson. At least since Helen of Troy, our leaders have been actively denying women the right to choose how to run their private lives.
Fair Pay Could Mean a More Fertile Future
November 16, 2010 - 2:49pm (Print)
At first blush, the debate over the Paycheck Fairness Act may not look like part of our ongoing national fertility discourse. But failure to pass the PFA will give women yet another reason to have fewer kids.
Post-fertile Boomers Push Birth Rate Drop
September 1, 2010 - 8:00am (Print)
Fertility rates in the US have fallen. But the needs of the news cycle for drama notwithstanding, nothing drastic or frightening is happening on the fertility front this year. It’s just plain family planning.
Childlessness Up, Down and Steady: Parsing the New Pew Research Center Report
June 28, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
Last month Pew Research Center confirmed there are indeed more older moms around. This month they report fewer women are having kids. Both reports resonate with the recent 50-year anniversary of the birth control pill.
Planning Motherhood: The Pill and the Social Transformations it Helped Us Realize
May 11, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
The birth control pill helped redefine the dynamics of motherhood and transform the lives of women, men and their kids, both physically and socially.
Just the Facts, Ma’am: Later Childbirth and Autism
April 1, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
Hot on the heels of last month’s fertility scaremongering about ovarian reserve came a new scare for women planning to start their families later, this one about autism. Once again, reporting ignored essential facts and skewed the takeaway.
Pushing Babies: The Assault on Childless Women
February 10, 2010 - 9:00am (Print)
