“Menstrual panties phase test”.
An e-mail containing a strange initiative was sent in mid-April to SNCF train drivers.
The message suggested that they wear menstrual panties to make up for the lack of toilets on trains.
The service in charge of gender equality found this (brilliant) solution after hearing railway workers, who confided their distress during services that could last seven or eight hours without toilets, reports
Le Parisien
.
The email indicates that “as part of the interviews on the subject of access to sanitary facilities”, an experiment on the wearing of menstrual panties was going to be launched.
"You don't have a toilet? Put on period panties!"
So this is @SNCF's message to female drivers?
Marie-Antoinette could not have said it better.
https://t.co/dUNOyvJrSK
— Julie Garnier 🐝🐢✌️ (@JulieGarnierFI) May 15, 2022
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Call for volunteers for a six-month test
Four women who volunteered will receive three menstrual panties to test during labor over a six-month period.
The e-mail would have initially only been sent to a few people but was finally consulted by the 394 train drivers of the SNCF.
The reactions were sharp and sharp.
" It does not go through !
», Indignant a railwaywoman of the CGT.
“We have been fighting for twenty years for decent working conditions, in particular access to reserved toilets […] and the company gives us this kind of answer: put on your panties and you keep them on for eight hours!
By consulting the e-mail, some would have even believed that it was about a joke of the direction.
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