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Menstruation

July 2024

  • Period products arranged symmetrically on pink background

    Inequality reporting
    Period poverty in Australia is forcing people to make their own menstrual products

    Report finds period poverty is spread across income brackets but affects more Indigenous people and people with disability
  • Rebecca Solnit

    The Republican party remains the party of denying women human rights

    Rebecca Solnit
    The GOP ticket of JD Vance and Donald Trump, from ‘menstrual surveillance’ to sexual assault, has made itself clear
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The Week in Patriarchy
    It’s no surprise a Newsweek writer panned Taylor Swift for being single and childless

    Arwa Mahdawi
    The broader context of what the magazine has become starts with political activist Josh Hammer running its opinion pages

June 2024

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The Week in Patriarchy
    A male birth control gel is one step closer to reality, and that’s worth celebrating

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Two female footballers on a green pitch: England's Keira Walsh, in a white shirt and dark blue shorts, who has the ball at her feet, tries to evade France's Kenza Dali, behind her in royal blue with red socks.

    Women perform better in cognitive tests when menstruating, study finds

  • Cropped picture of a woman lying on her side clutching a hot water bottle to her stomach

    A year on, Spain’s ‘historic’ menstrual leave law has hardly been used. Why?

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The Week in Patriarchy
    Jerry Seinfeld’s lurch to the right now includes mourning ‘dominant masculinity’

    Arwa Mahdawi

May 2024

  • a young girl wears a backpack in school

    US girls got their first periods increasingly earlier over the last 50 years, new study finds

    Trend is especially pronounced among Black, Hispanic and Asian participants, and those who report lower socioeconomic status

April 2024

  • Holland & Barrett women’s health coach Jayda St Louis (left) speaks to customer Anoja Kirubalarajah inside the Holland & Barrett store at Marble Arch

    Holland & Barrett trains 600 women’s health coaches to give in-store support

  • period products

    States work to ban period products containing toxic PFAS after 2023 report

March 2024

  • A Palestinian woman hangs her washing out to dry.

    ‘My period has become a nightmare’: life in Gaza without sanitary products

  • A pharmacist in Barcelona, Spain, shows a menstrual cup to Helena Herranz, an 18-year-old student.

    Catalan pharmacies hand out free reusable period products

February 2024

  • Six middle-aged women pictured in their homes

    ‘Me and my menopause’: a view from women around the world

  • ‘While it’s not a solution, just knowing what’s going on when I feel awful anger boiling over has been more helpful than I could have imagined’: Rebecca Seal.

    ‘Rage would bubble out of nowhere’: my battle with a premenstrual disorder

January 2024

  • Dr. Jen Gunter is photographed in Toronto on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young<br>2HRJNX4 Dr. Jen Gunter is photographed in Toronto on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

    Book of the day
    Blood by Jen Gunter review – busting myths about menstruation

    The gynaecologist known for criticising Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop is back with an empowering guide to periods
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    Observer book of the week
    Blood: The Science, Medicine and Mythology of Menstruation by Dr Jen Gunter – why periods are ‘a muddled burden’

    The outspoken Canadian gynaecologist’s compelling scientific study cuts through misinformation, myth and worse with clarity and wit in this study of the menstrual cycle
  • A general view of Marks and Spencer signage and store entrance in Fenchurch Street, London

    Period pants to get cheaper as tax on product abolished

    Retailers including Marks & Spencer and Tesco promise to pass on savings to customers after VAT axed

December 2023

  • Nell Frizzell

    We need rituals to help ease the pain of unwanted periods

    Nell Frizzell
    When you’re hoping to be pregnant, the arrival of your period calls for a condolence card, a sunrise walk – or a good scream, writes Nell Frizzell

November 2023

  • Kristi Hughes standing with her arms folded outside her home in Liverpool

    ‘Employers should recognise the issues’: menstrual conditions in the workplace

  • A woman lying on a sofa holds a hot-water bottle to her stomach

    Two-thirds of UK women have bad work experiences due to periods, survey finds

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