The Swingin' Sixties
Gender Equality/Roles By the end of the Sixties, more than 80 percent of wives were using contraception because the government in 1960 approved a birth control pill. This meant it was easier and less risky for a woman to have sex without the risk of pregnancy (and so have sex unmarried), and pursue a career as there was a minimised risk of having to look after a child. Due to both of these things, gender roles slowly became less clear cut, with women being capable (although unlikely due to unequal pay) to be the breadwinner of a family or be more independent as a whole - they didn't 'need' a man to pay for them, so it became more socially acceptable to not have one. Pay inequality was also addressed in the Sixties. With more women being in the workforce there was more of an outcry about the massive wage gap. This lead to feminists passionately work towards pay being made fairer, a thing that by the end of the decade was more commonly accepted by society (Equal Pay law pa...