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New law: 3 sick days a month for women with severe menstruation

Many women who suffer from severe pain for a few days a month, before and during menstruation, will be happy due to the new law that will probably pass in Spain, which is to allow these women to stay at home on sick leave once a month for three days.

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Jenny Danson

18/05/2022

18/05/2022

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While we are flooded with publications that some US states are making abortions illegal and are actually trying to restrict women's right to decide on their bodies, on the other hand, European countries are doing just the opposite - trying to create a supportive environment for women according to their specific needs

. A reform will be put to a vote in the Spanish cabinet that will ask for a three-day "menstrual leave" option, in order to allow women who suffer from severe pain during the menstrual cycle to stay at home.

The reform, introduced by Secretary of State for Gender Equality and Violence Angela Rodriguez, promises to make the discourse around female health more open and acceptable. Free as part of the National Health Package, as well as allowing girls 16 and 17 to undergo the procedure without parental consent.And as a bonus, they offer to provide sanitary napkins in schools and lower the tax on bandages.

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Every mother knows how hard it is to explain that you stay home when your child is sick (Photo: ShutterStock)

The reform is undoubtedly coming at the right time, and on the other hand feels like something that should have always been here.

Only in recent years has female health become something that can be talked about openly, and if women were once sent to solitude for a week or two during menstruation so as not to defile everything around them when experiencing a completely natural process, today we hear government ministers (currently Spanish) say things Like "it's clear we do not want to normalize the requirement for men to work while they are in pain, and yet women have had to do that for years."

Men can be expected to split in two regarding reform: those who are afraid to express their opinion and accept the fact that there is a new law to be obeyed without expressing their opinion simply because their opinion is irrelevant in any way, and those who oppose the law but their opinion, again, will not be relevant - simple Because they have never experienced menstrual cramps, do not know what it is and probably do not understand the physical or mental sensations of a woman who has to deal with the same pains every month.

What will be interesting to see is what awaits us from the female discourse - according to the Center for Gynecology and Obstetrics in Spain, about a third of women suffer from severe symptoms such as severe pain, cramps and even fever during menstruation called dysmenorrhea - symptoms that no doubt require every woman to rest and not work.

About a third of women suffer from severe symptoms such as severe pain (Photo: ShutterStock)

On the other hand, there are those remaining two-thirds.

You know, the ones who take paracetamol and set off.

And the problem here is different, because with all due respect to female power and woman to woman queen and all the other slogans, in the end it's a little hard for me to imagine a manager sitting in an office while she's circulating and getting a phone call from someone working under her announcing she stays home. Mountain Day - everyone is in sync at the end) and responds to it with empathy.

The question here will always be which side you are on: of those who go through the cycle with some nerves and some bandages or of those who need a few days at home - and I promise therefore those who suffer less will never understand the other side.

Even I do not understand companies that cancel programs with me because of turnover.

It always feels to me like an excuse for someone who just has no power.

And maybe that’s the problem with the law: that it expects women to listen to themselves and not get to work when they feel they can’t, and still be traditional and loyal facts, which usually means giving 300% to the system, and it usually doesn’t work.

Every mom knows how hard it is to explain that you are staying home when your child is sick or taking a day off simply because there is simply no school today - so now we get a chance to take advantage of three days a month but only if "we really really don't feel good"?

As much as the proposal is inherently welcome, I feel it still needs precision and improvement so that it can truly improve the lives of working women without making them face a situation where the environment thinks they are "knocking the system out."

But maybe I'm wrong, or just nervous, or just a moment before menstruation.

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