Menstruation
When your employee... is a woman. Launch of the ‘Career Cycle’
More than half of men say it is inappropriate to mention menstruation at work. Almost three-quarters of women hide their menstrual pad on their way to the bathroom. Menstruation at work is still a huge taboo and a real problem for working women. A group of employers decided to meet their needs.
This is the blood that hospitals don’t like
Why isn’t there a reimbursement for sanitary pads for female hospital patients? Once again we come to a situation where a woman has to manage somehow. Interview with psychologist Katarzyna Bieńkowska* and psychiatrist Sebastian Koterwa
Good Body. Women are still ashamed of their bellies, unshaven legs and the fact that they have no erotic life ‘You’re too fat’, ‘How do you walk?’, ‘Pull your belly in’. It’s a voice from years ago, we all have it in our heads
‘I hear a lot of apologising for unshaven legs, armpits, bikinis, but also explaining, for example, the lack of an erotic life’. A conversation with Kamila Raczynska-Chomyn*, menstrual and sexuality educator, doula and massage therapist, and author of the 2022 ‘Good Body’ calendar.
‘Bringing receipts for sanitary pads, explaining buying tampons – that’s also violence’
‘I know of cases of women who not only had to ask for money for sanitary pads, but often had access to them conditioned on them having sex with their partner’. Interview with Joanna Piotrowska from the Feminoteka Foundation
Blood is a secret
Three words caught Michał’s attention – “bloody vaginal discharge”. He read that all women have it. He went to ask the neighbour next door about it
