The pill is often characterized as a great advancement for women but in truth all human beings were advanced as women were freed to increasingly contribute their talents and intellect fully to the great research and economic challenges of their eras. E361 For this reason alone. Carl Djerassi should be heralded as an advocate for human rights and economic development. Dr. Djerassi came to the United States with his mother as a refugee from a Europe increasingly dominated by Nazi Germany. After writing to Eleanor Roosevelt about his impoverished state. but inquiring mind. she offered him a scholarship. It was a fateful offer for Carl Djerassi and for human beings globally.