Stateside's conversation with Beverly Strassmann, a professor of anthropology and a researcher at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.
In 1960, the first oral contraceptive was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as contraception.
That drug, Enovid, changed the course of history for women.
Yet Beverly Strassmann, a professor of anthropology and a researcher at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, has a challenge for the drug companies that make hormonal birth control: don’t rest on your laurels.
Her research indicates it might be past time for pharmaceutical companies to tweak the formulation of the pill.