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The Kulczyk Foundation, the Congress of Women Association, and the Polish Confederation Lewiatan invite entries to a competition designed especially for employers. In this contest, there is much more to be won than awards and the prestige that goes with them. This is also an opportunity to develop new, better standards for Poland’s labour market.

Ensuring availability of menstrual products at schools and universities, and introduction of menstruation education to school curricula are the major consequences of changes to the Polish law advocated by organisations and individuals participating in Periodic Coalition, initiated by Dominika Kulczyk and the Kulczyk Foundation. On Wednesday, 14 June, representatives of the Coalition presented a draft bill aimed at regulating both issues to Members of the Polish Parliament.

Two-thirds of women admit they have found themselves in a situation where they did not have access to sanitary pads or tampons while in school when they were on their period, a survey commissioned by the Kulczyk Foundation found. Nearly the same percentage of people in Poland support free access to menstrual products in schools.

The initiative to collect 100,000 signatures on behalf of the Periodic Coalition was announced by Dominika Kulczyk during the Congress of Women. The first Polish draft law on menstruation is to be submitted to the parliament of Poland in the form of a citizens' legislative initiative. The Periodic Coalition also appealed to women's communities for support.