On the 8th of International Women's Day, an international NGO and others announced the results of a survey on menstruation conducted in the United States, and said that one in five women had a hard time getting sanitary napkins due to the corona disaster. I found out.
This is a compilation of the results of multiple questionnaire surveys on menstruation conducted nationwide by the international NGO "Plan International," which supports the improvement of the rights of women and children.
According to a survey of 1007 people between the ages of 18 and 70 in the United States from April to May last year, about one in five women struggled to get sanitary napkins. Is answered.
In addition, about one in four people are worried about whether they can continue to purchase sanitary napkins in the future, and more than 40% of them answered that they were more worried because of the corona napkin.
Justin Hugle of Plan International USA analyzes this as "it seems that unemployment in the corona wreck is also having an effect."
As so-called "physiological poverty" has begun to attract attention as a social issue, there is a growing movement to exempt sanitary napkins from taxation in some states in the United States. As the number of female politicians such as these has increased, the awareness of issues that have not been paid attention to until now may have increased. "
Regarding "physiological poverty," a questionnaire survey conducted by a private organization in Japan found that about 20% of students had difficulty buying sanitary napkins.