By becoming, on August 15, 2022, the first – and only – country in the world to have adopted free menstrual protection (local authorities, schools and universities must now provide free tampons and sanitary pads), Scotland set up as an example.
But women in the rest of the world are, alas, not yet in the same boat...
An uneven load, and sometimes dangerous consequences
If New Zealand also encourages, since June 2021, schools to distribute free protections and that the French State allocates 5 million euros annually to the fight against menstrual precariousness, it is not the same song in Lebanon , for example, where the impact of the economic crisis is pushing many women to fall back on cloth protection.
And these inequalities create real dangers: “Wearing protection for too long or wearing unsuitable protection has consequences for the physical health of women since it can lead to infections, underlines Justine Okolodkoff, awareness manager at the association
Rules Elementary
.
Worse: it also harms their mental health, because it gives them a degraded self-image.
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Discover the impacts of this "injustice" in this video from our partner Brut.
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