Anonymous wrote:Feminists want it to be fair and square...except when they don't. What is the male equivalent of menstrual leave?

You can take sick leave for period cramps if you need it. Where does it say you can't?

Anonymous wrote:After looking at some of the responses on this thread, I don't think OP was too far off the mark.

Feminism is dead because some women feel so awful when they have their periods that they take sick leave? It seems to me that they're using sick leave for its intended purposes. Or are you saying that it is un-feminist to have painful periods?

"When he asked her why she didn't use sanitary pads, she pointed out that if she bought them for the women in the family, she wouldn't be able to afford to buy milk or run the household."


http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26260978

Anonymous wrote:Could this be because in some countries, men don't want menstruating women around? I recently saw something about being forced into menstrual huts during your period in India.

Much of the developing world lacks disposable feminine hygiene supplies like napkins and tampons. Where I worked in rural Latin America, women were using cloth diapers or, in the high sierra, bleeding directly into their clothing. In one family I worked with, the girls luckily were too underweight to menstruate because they needed to work in the fields for 10 hour days and there were no bathroom facilities, just a trench.

Imagine the average American woman trying to make a sale pitch while blood is seeping through her underwear into her skirt? Yeah, we got it lucky in comparison.

Common in show biz contracts.

This is why I had to have uterine ablation before I entered my 40s. I was missing 2 days of work a month.

It was my fertility or my job.

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Anonymous wrote:Menstrual leave?! A a woman, and a feminist, I think that's fucking absurd. I know some women have debilitating periods, but for most, it's minimally invasive. If you're periods are seriously interfering with your life, then you need a doctor, not special leave every month. Being a woman is not a medical problem.

My friend has seen numerous doctors for her debilitating pain and nausea on the first day of her period; no explanation, no answer. She takes sick leave almost every month (sometimes the timing works out that she gets her period in the afternoon and isn't sick during the work day). I have never needed menstrual leave, but I feel for the women who do.

This. Knew someone who had debilitating pain and nausea. She was given some meds for the pain but not much else could be done.

I get it really bad -- tear-inducing pain, explosive diarrhea and nausea-- and no doctor has ever been able to figure out why. I end up taking at least one day of sick leave a month. But I work in the US and I don't think we really need any special menstrual leave here. However, I have worked in developing countries and probably would support menstrual leave in some places especially those places where there aren't proper facilities. It's a horrible feeling facing a long work day knowing you will not be able to tend to your hygiene properly.

You need a good doctor. So not normal.

After looking at some of the responses on this thread, I don't think OP was too far off the mark.

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Anonymous wrote:Menstrual leave?! A a woman, and a feminist, I think that's fucking absurd. I know some women have debilitating periods, but for most, it's minimally invasive. If you're periods are seriously interfering with your life, then you need a doctor, not special leave every month. Being a woman is not a medical problem.

My friend has seen numerous doctors for her debilitating pain and nausea on the first day of her period; no explanation, no answer. She takes sick leave almost every month (sometimes the timing works out that she gets her period in the afternoon and isn't sick during the work day). I have never needed menstrual leave, but I feel for the women who do.

This. Knew someone who had debilitating pain and nausea. She was given some meds for the pain but not much else could be done.

I get it really bad -- tear-inducing pain, explosive diarrhea and nausea-- and no doctor has ever been able to figure out why. I end up taking at least one day of sick leave a month. But I work in the US and I don't think we really need any special menstrual leave here. However, I have worked in developing countries and probably would support menstrual leave in some places especially those places where there aren't proper facilities. It's a horrible feeling facing a long work day knowing you will not be able to tend to your hygiene properly.

Anonymous wrote:Bloody ridiculous!

I love you PP

Anonymous wrote:Uh, I took sick days when I had terrible periods but didn't call the leave menstrual leave. Why the label? It's called a sick day. That should cover everything. (Where's Ralph today? Oh, he's taken paid food poisoning leave!)

Feminism better not be dead.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/12/women-in-management-study_n_4948186.html

+1!

NP here, for people who didn't want to click on the link, it was about a study that ranked the US 37 out of 45 countries for percent of women in senior management positions.

Bloody ridiculous!

Anonymous wrote:Could this be because in some countries, men don't want menstruating women around? I recently saw something about being forced into menstrual huts during your period in India.

Yeah, doesn't sound like women's lib at all. OP is off her rocker.

Anonymous wrote:Could this be because in some countries, men don't want menstruating women around? I recently saw something about being forced into menstrual huts during your period in India.

Hmmm. Maybe it is psychological. Men want to breed so maybe that's also why they don't like older women in the workforce either.

Could this be because in some countries, men don't want menstruating women around? I recently saw something about being forced into menstrual huts during your period in India.