'Period dignity for all is not radical or extreme.'
MORE: This Congresswoman nicknamed 'period lady' is on a mission to give all women access to period products
The taboo around menstruation and the lack of access to menstrual products also hurts women economically because it costs them money for products and may keep them from jobs and school, advocates say. It also sets women back mentally and in a society where something that happens to them naturally is demeaned or even not discussed.
."And the things that keep us potentially from succeeding are often the things that happen to be what we don’t talk about in polite society."Rep. Grace Meng speaks at a Women's Voices for the Earth's women's health rally supported by Seventh Generation on the grounds of the Capitol on May 23, 2017, in Washington.
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