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One in five low-income women have reported missing work, school or similar events due to lack of access to period supplies. [175] With regards to mental health, 68.1% of women experiencing monthly period poverty expressed that they were experiencing moderate or severe depression compared to 43.4% of women who experienced no period poverty. [176]
Pink tax or tampon tax contributes to period poverty, affecting 500 million worldwide. 1 in 5 American girls miss school due to period poverty. End it.
Period poverty is an intersectional issue and unhoused women experiencing it have trouble accessing menstrual products due to economic constraints. Single women makeup a quarter of those experiencing homelessness in the UK; in the USA, it is a similar percentage as women account for 28% of the homeless population. [ 21 ]
The Story of Menstruation is a 1946 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions. [3] It was commissioned by the International Cello-Cotton Company (now Kimberly-Clark ) [ 4 ] and was shown in a non-theatrical release to approximately 105 million American students in health education classes. [ 2 ]
The issue is now in the hands of Florida’s high school athletic board. Will high school athletes have to disclose their menstrual history? Where it stands now
‘We were in the toilet because she was on her period, but she didn’t care. She just gave us lunchtime detention,’ pupil says
The Girls' School Committee of 1866 organized the regulation of girls' schools and female education in Sweden: from 1870, some girls' schools were given the right to offer the Gymnasium level to their students, and from 1874, those girls' schools which met the demands were given governmental support and some were given the right to administer ...
Despite its relatively short life, gender history (and its forerunner women's history) has had a rather significant effect on the general study of history.Since the 1960s, when the initially small field first achieved a measure of acceptance, it has gone through a number of different phases, each with its own challenges and outcomes, but always making an impact of some kind on the historical ...