Granny – everyone’s Granny – shouted very loudly about this a generation and more back. Because if this is true then women should not be allowed to do certain jobs and also should be paid less when they do:
Last week Spain became the first country in Europe to entitle workers to paid menstrual leave, meaning that workers can take time off work for painful symptoms from their period.
The US and the UK don’t currently offer this benefit as standard, but we hope that more governments will take inspiration from Spain—as well as Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Korea, and Zambia—in accommodating the impact of periods on our health.
Studies have found that workplaces’ ignoring the impact of periods on an employee affects productivity considerably, as well. Research shows that people who menstruate tend to work through their period pain, and it makes them less productive. For example, a 2019 Dutch survey of 32,748 women found that this presenteeism during painful, exhausting, or heavy periods accounted for nine days of lost productivity per person, per year.
If women are out for nine days a year – the working year is perhaps 200 days these days – then that’s about a 5% reduction in pay they should get as against men for the same job.
And that’s the thing that these bimbos have to understand. Which they don’t. These calls for menstrual leave are going to justify – no, prove – women being paid less. About which they will complain because they don’t realise what it is that they themselves are insisting upon.
“presenteeism”
Ever read a neologism and get that “What fresh hell is this” feeling?
What’s this “people who menstruate” bollocks? Why not call them what they are, i.e. women?
Post menopausal women presumably can’t access the leave. So not women as a group.
Post menopausal people who used to menstruate (are you sure we can’t just call them women?) are angling for post menopausal symptom related leave as well.
They are called bimbos for a reason, you know.
Right bleeders, all of them!
How would that fit with equality law then? Presumably if women aged 18-50 were granted extra employment rights then a man of similar age could sue for the same under equality law?
It won’t be 9 days, Tim. This is Spain. At least three of them will occur on holiday.
If they’re less productive while working through menstrual cramps – how much less productive will they be when they’re not working at all?
Will this be like Maternity pay where the government funds it?
I’m always amazed at how Spain (and Ireland, but not Poland) has transformed a from staunchly traditional Catholic country to ridiculously woke, in the blink of an eye.
AndrewM, The pendulum swings further the further you pull it away from the middle… Moves with more speed as well to maintain the period..
BiS, you know damn well that the *ahem* ladies will have their periods outside of the hallowed holidays. And whenever they feel like it. And when there’s actual work involved.
There’ll be ones having a period 4 times a month.. And you’re not allowed to take notice of that unlikely biological event..
Important lesson from highschool…
‘Will this be like Maternity pay where the government funds it?’
That is what they’re pushing for, Chernyy.
I’ll take menstrual leave too. I’m a bloke but can’t wait to see the woke minds explode in HR
More seriously, I had a tooth infection this week, culminating in an extraction yesterday, with deep banging-head-against-wall pain. If I was working would I get a week’s paid mandible leave?
I assume that middle aged men will be able to claim paid ‘mid life crisis’ leave? No? That is so unfair.
Do women actually give a crap about the reason for being paid not to work? Not really. Sure, some will ignore it as an attempt to undermine the role of women in the workforce, others will use it literally and still others (probably the majority) will use it as a “Duvet Day” style excuse to have a day off whenever they feel like it.
Cue statistical analyses wondering why women take “Menstrual days” almost exclusively on Monday’s and Friday’s.
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Will university Rag Weeks have to be renamed to avoid confusion?
All these words with ‘men’ in them must give some ‘people with wombs’ conniptions. Menses, Menstruation, Menstrual, Menopause, etc. As a right-on feminist myself (but without a womb or fanny), I suggest some more neologisms are needed to remove the hated word.
Any suggestions?
@Ed P
We could follow in the example of that guy who dresses silly and would like to be a fisherthem.
Themes, themstruation, themstrual, themopause, etc
Sometimes it depends on my choice of filming those “casting” films