🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if the contraceptive pill had gone differently?
1960 · north-america
For the first time, reliable contraception a woman controls herself.
If it had gone differently: Family size stays largely out of women's hands; the demographic and social shifts of the late century are muted and delayed.
What it set up
- 1918Women win the vote, Half the population stays voteless into mid-century; mass democracy is only ever half a democracy.
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