{"id":2161,"date":"2016-03-03T03:22:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/03\/17-of-women-miss-work-school-out-of-fear-their-periods-will-be-discovered\/"},"modified":"2016-03-03T03:22:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:22:41","slug":"17-of-women-miss-work-school-out-of-fear-their-periods-will-be-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/03\/17-of-women-miss-work-school-out-of-fear-their-periods-will-be-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"17% of women miss work, school out of fear their periods will be discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Women’s health app Clue<\/a> surveyed 90,000 people from 190 countries to learn how the world thinks about menstruation. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The results prove that most countries do indeed hold negative stigmas surrounding menstruation. As a result, those with periods can feel silenced.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: A British company is giving female staff time off for period pains<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cMany women and girls in developing countries face a host of challenges when it comes to their\u00a0period\u2014from not being able to access hygiene products to being forced to miss school because of a lack of\u00a0<\/span>toilets. This is compounded by the fact that most don\u2019t receive comprehensive sexuality education, so they\u00a0<\/span>are unaware of how their bodies work,\u201d said Fran\u00e7oise Girard in a release.\u00a0<\/span>Girard is\u00a0<\/span>president of\u00a0<\/span>The International Women\u2019s Health Coalition<\/a>\u00a0(<\/span>IWHC), which consulted on the survey.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cWe need to do a lot more to make sure women and girls know and are\u00a0<\/span>comfortable speaking about their sexual and reproductive health and their rights.\u201d<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Women’s health app Clue surveyed 90,000 people from 190 countries to learn how the world thinks about menstruation. \u00a0 The results prove that most countries do indeed hold negative stigmas surrounding menstruation. As a result, those with periods can feel … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}