Inclusive Workplace Practices: Supporting Employees During Their Periods
Women think about everyone before themselves. In a world where most men are handed everything on a silver platter, women have to work for it, break through the societal stigma, and work 10 times harder than men to prove their value. While we strive for diversity and equality, the situation for modern women in workplaces hasn’t become better than it was earlier. Forget about menstrual leaves, women sometimes don’t have the right facilities and amenities like female sanitary cups in their workplace to manage their periods. Why such ignorance? When menstruation is a normal bodily phenomenon experienced by half of the population, why awareness to address this physiological process and make situations more comfortable for women is still a distant dream? The answer is stigma. People aren’t supposed to talk about periods, let alone take the necessary steps to make working conditions better for menstruating women. However, if you want to foster a culture of equality and ma...