Recently, lawmakers in Florida and Idaho have restricted information about and access to menstruation and period products. Megha Desai, president of the Desai Foundation, and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, author of 'Periods Gone Public,' offer 6 steps businesses can take today to support menstrual equity.
on menstrual policy – agrees. “Fluency in the menstrual cycle is an essential matter of personal health and hygiene,” she says. “In our post-society, we can't rely only on schools to impart these lessons. Not at a time when our reproductive health is subject to partisan politics and truly anti-democratic practices.
Here are Weiss-Wolf and Desai’s recommendations to business leaders for how they can support menstrual equity by making menstruation part of company benefits and best practices:Ensure no penalty for bathroom breaks, especially for hourly employees. Fund global awareness programs. Such investments enable girls to stay in school and women to work. Eliminating barriers posed by menstruation can have a massive impact on global GDPs.
Understand the laws in states where you do business and make menstrual equity part of your public policy commitment. This includes advocating for medically accurate reproductive, sexual, and menstrual education in schools; publicly funded and freely accessible menstrual products; elimination of the “tampon tax”; and protection from menstrual surveillance and data sharing. Use your connections with business leaders and lawmakers to press for local, state and federal reforms.
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