Ourselves at Work: Creating positive menstrual culture in your workplace

Ourselves at Work: Creating positive menstrual culture in your workplace is a comprehensive guide for how to dismantle the menstrual taboo in workplaces, and replace it with a culture that embraces menstrual wellbeing.

The guide outlines the key data that shows why positive menstrual policies in the workplace are not only necessary for employees, but have demonstrated benefits for organisations. It details the seriousness and the consequences of the menstrual taboo, and offers a number of case studies of businesses who have introduced menstrual leave policies.

Lastly, it offers a step-by-step action plan for how to implement change in your own organisation.

The research and themes included in this document are drawn from the book About Bloody Time: The Menstrual Revolution We Have to Have by Karen Pickering and Jane Bennett, which was published in 2019 by the Dugdale Trust for Women and Girls.

Menstrual silence, shame, ignorance and awkwardness are not only counter to women’s fundamental health and wellbeing, but also to the realisation of their full human rights—to be able to avail themselves of the opportunities and resources in life, to live without discrimination; and to be able to participate fully and freely as citizens and consumers in their communities, workplaces and society at large.

Karen Pickering and Jane Bennett, About Bloody Time

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Ourselves at Work: Creating positive menstrual culture in your workplace

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