The toilets will be equipped with containers where three different types of menstrual pads will be available, bandages, tampons and panty liners.
This applies to all municipal toilets, which includes toilets in schools, nursing homes and in the town hall.
What it will cost is still unclear, but the municipal board has reserved SEK 250,000 for the purpose during 2021-2022.
- We will evaluate how it goes and also the costs on an ongoing basis.
In different activities, different amounts of menstrual protection will be needed, says Åsa-Märta Sjöström (S).
Should look at menstrual pads in the same way as toilet paper
The background for the decision being made is to strengthen the gender equality perspective in the municipality.
- It is important that you look at menstrual protection in the same way as you do at e.g.
toilet paper and soap.
And for me as a woman, this is an extra important issue.
This is something that was talked about already when I was in high school.
Sjöström does not see any risk that people would pick up menstrual pads and bunker from the toilets.
She believes that the benefits outweigh the risks.
- We are prepared to take that risk and then evaluate.
Someone might bring an extra because it is not at home.
We have to see it in the same way as soap and toilet paper and it is not so common to pick it up from toilets.
When the menstrual pads will be available in the toilets is still unclear.