The Period Movement: Meet the Men Fighting to Stop Menstruation-Shaming.
The Period Movement: Meet the Men Fighting to Stop Menstruation-Shaming.
Newsweek, July 12, 2017.
Ganga Gautam stood at the back of a high school classroom in Kathmandu, Nepal, helplessly watching as a teenage girl started bleeding.
Gautam, a professor of English education at Tribhuvan University, was observing one of his students teach a class two years ago.
The blood was coming,” he says.
“She wasn’t prepared.
She didn’t have a pad, and there was a male teacher teaching.” Gautam saw the young girl open her pen and drip ink over the blood in an effort to hide it.
As soon as class ended, she placed a piece of paper over the red stain and ran out.
That just killed me.”Around the world, girls and women miss classes, drop out of school and fail to reach their full potential because of a natural biological process: menstruation.