Until now, no one has known much about the psychological impact of the pill on the more than 100 million women who take it each day.
are the result of a nine-month study that examined nearly 4000 diary entries from women in 21 countries.
In practical terms, the study means that mid-cycle could be an ideal time for naturally cycling women to book a job interview or tackle a particularly challenging task, says Arthur-Hulme. Nearly 75 per cent of the study’s 86 participants who were on hormonal contraceptives took the contraceptive pill – the remaining participants on contraceptives used either the vaginal ring, contraceptive implant or contraceptive patch.
But the authors are already preparing themselves for backlash, says Dr Khandis Blake, co-author of the study.“There’s a long history of biology being used to oppress women,” says Blake, director of the Evolution lab at the University of Melbourne. “Every talk I give, you basically have to make sure you position yourself in a way so people don’t automatically stop listening and people don’t think you’re a right-wing, crazy suppressor of women,” Blake says.
“It’s an interesting sort of idea that hormone levels influence behaviour, and it certainly is true as a general comment,” says Polyakov, Associate Professor in the medicine and health sciences department at the University of Melbourne. “But whether you can actually determine how hormone changes influence particular behaviours such as aggressiveness or competitiveness, I’m not quite sure they have done a good job at that.
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