HomeEditors Picks It will take lot more than free period products to end stigma around menstruation
It will take lot more than free period products to end stigma around menstruation
There are several building blocks towards reducing menstruation stigma. ()Will Oliver/EPA
Pad by pad, efforts to challenge the stigma of menstruation are putting periods in the spotlight. The latest move comes from the Scottish parliament, which just passed a landmark bill to combat “period poverty”. Led by Labour MSP Monica Lennon, lawmakers unanimously voted to provide free menstrual products for all people who menstruate.
Just two years after becoming the first to provide period products in all schools, colleges and universities, Scotland is the first nation in the world to guarantee access to menstrual products. Although this is the first time menstrual products have been been provided universally, Scotland follows in the footsteps of other pioneering efforts. Most notably, Kenya has provide
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Rosie Gizauskas
Updated: 17 Dec 2020, 16:57
WHEN York nurse Dawn Bilbrough got into her car in March this year, she broke down.
On the way home from her fourth gruelling 12-hour shift in a row on the critical care wards in the middle of the pandemic, she’d expected to be able to pick up some fresh fruit and veg to feed her family. But when she got into the supermarket, it had been ransacked by shoppers needlessly stockpiling.
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Pad by pad, efforts to challenge the stigma of menstruation are putting periods in the spotlight. The latest move comes from the Scottish parliament, which just passed a landmark bill to combat “period poverty”. Led by Labour MSP Monica Lennon, lawmakers unanimously voted to provide free menstrual products for all people who menstruate.
Just two years after becoming the first to provide period products in all schools, colleges and universities, Scotland is the first nation in the world to guarantee access to menstrual products. Although this is the first time menstrual products have been been provided universally, Scotland follows in the footsteps of other pioneering efforts. Most notably, Kenya has provided free products in schools for years.