In Chile, they call it "Control on birth rate", in Switzerland “Anti baby pill”. Same pill, different meaning. The first time I noticed it was when I went to the pharmacy in the US: my terminology for this pill was completely different from “birth control”.

I started this research in order to see if there are similar differences across other languages and how they affect the women using the pill. In the places I gathered information on, the pills are available and legal, but it doesn't mean that there aren't issues and stigmas with taking them. For example in India “Many women report feeling uncomfortable and harshly judged when buying contraceptives at pharmacies”, wouldn't you feel the same if you asked for a pill that is literally called "Womb Repellant"? By the end of my research I discovered so much about every country in relation to women, their birth rates, and motherhood. The results were a bit surprising. There was a direct correlation between countries that have an unneutral name for the pill and the lower weeks of maternity leave. I would expect that if a country wants a lower birth rate they will give a positive name for the pill and encourage women to take it.

I designed and programmed a small prototype that presents information about every country in it related to women, their birth rates, and motherhood.

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