Attention Harvard ladies, you’ll be able to find your tampons next to the condom dispenser in the student common areas, but don’t expect a chocolate and/or ice cream dispenser installed in near future. – PB/TK
New Enthusiasm for ‘Menstrual Equity,’ at College and in Congress – By Susan Jones | February 21, 2017
(CNSNews.com) – As if the world doesn’t have enough problems, “menstrual equity” is now a rising concern, at college and even in Congress.
To overcome the “stigma” attached to menstruation, Harvard University’s Undergraduate Council recently passed legislation allocating $1,000 to make tampons and other feminine hygiene products “more available” in freshman dorms, the Harvard Crimson reported on Tuesday.
The male student behind the one-month pilot project, Arnav Agrawal ’20, told the Crimson the new tampon dispensers won’t be located in bathrooms: “We’re just going to provide them next to the condom dispensers that are formally in place in common rooms. So it has no relations with public bathrooms or in-suite bathrooms, it’s just going to be places where more people can access it.”
According to the Crimson, the Undergraduate Council president “asked if there were measures in place to control whether or not the products would be distributed equally among students. Agrawal said he plans on monitoring the tampon supply in order to prohibit students from taking too many.”
The concern about menstruation is not confined to college campuses.
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