Period Poverty and Promoting Menstrual Equity
Marni Sommer, Diana J. Mason
Abstract
Many people acknowledge that menstruation-notably equal access to menstrual hygiene products-is an equity issue. It does not require a commission to address it. What is needed is for health care clinicians and administrators to be in the forefront of a growing movement to ensure that all adolescent girls and women have access to safe, hygienic menstrual management and assured menstrual health.
Topics & Concepts
Period (music)PovertyGender equityEquity (law)Political sciencePsychologyDemographic economicsEconomicsEconomic growthPhilosophyLawAestheticsMenstrual Health and DisordersOvarian function and disordersReproductive Physiology in Livestock