{"id":223697,"date":"2023-01-24T20:12:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=223697"},"modified":"2023-02-20T18:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:12:03","slug":"kerala-announces-menstrual-leave-time-to-talk-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kerala-announces-menstrual-leave-time-to-talk-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala announces menstrual leave: Time to talk period"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Kerala announces menstrual leave: Time to talk period<\/strong>\u201d published in The Indian Express<\/strong> on\u00a024th<\/sup> January 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 <\/strong>Social Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>menstrual leave for women and associated concerns<\/strong><\/h5>\n

News<\/strong>: Kerala government has announced that it will grant menstrual leave for female students in all state universities under the Department of Higher Education. This announcement is a positive step towards a gender-just society.<\/p>\n

How menstrual leave would benefit women and what are the concerns associated with it?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Benefits:<\/strong> It is an important step towards acknowledging and addressing the pain and discomfort faced by women.<\/p>\n

Period leave would help create workplaces and classrooms that are more inclusive and more accommodating.<\/p>\n

Concerns:<\/strong> Menstruation in India is a taboo topic. Therefore, it is possible that a special period leave could become a source for discrimination.<\/p>\n

South Korea and Japan have laws<\/strong> granting period leave but recent surveys showed a decline in the number of women availing it due to the social stigma against menstruation. This could also be in India.<\/p>\n

Further, there is risk of medicalising a normal biological process which could further lead to biases against women.<\/p>\n

Moreover, there are also possibilities that employers may be reluctant to hire women<\/strong> due to the extra leave granted to them.<\/p>\n

How have various governments recognised menstrual leave and what are the challenges?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The government has tried to come up with menstrual laws and schemes for women.<\/p>\n

For example,<\/strong> Bihar introduced period leave for working women in 1992. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare\u2019s Menstrual Hygiene Scheme<\/strong> seeks to increase access to sanitary napkins for adolescent girls in rural areas.<\/p>\n

However, bringing laws on menstruation still remains a challenge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Menstruation Benefits Bill <\/strong>was first introduced in Parliament in 2017 and then in the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly in 2022.<\/p>\n

However, the bill was withdrawn from the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly<\/strong> because the subject was deemed unsuitable for discussion in the Assembly.<\/p>\n

Therefore, such issues and obstacles will bring difficulties in recognising the goals of gender justice and equality.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cKerala announces menstrual leave: Time to talk period\u201d published in The Indian Express on\u00a024th January 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Social Justice Relevance: menstrual leave for women and associated concerns News: Kerala government has announced that it will grant menstrual leave for female students in all state universities… Continue reading Kerala announces menstrual leave: Time to talk period<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-223697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}