What if the contraceptive pill had gone differently?

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.

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Later turning points that leaned on the contraceptive pill. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1918Women win the vote. Without it, Half the population stays voteless into mid-century; mass democracy is only ever half a democracy.