As Menstrual Hygiene Day was celebrated worldwide on May 28, several members of the government signed an opinion column in the Huff Post. State secretaries for the gender equality Marlène Schiappa, ecological transition, Brune Poison, for the minister of the Economy, Agnès Pannier-Runacher and for the minister of Health Christelle Dubos made the most of it to announce free sanitary products for women in need.
This measure, starting from September 2020, will start with a test plan. In concrete words, this testing period will take place to “students in secondary education and students, female inmates, women in need and homeless women” the four members of the government said.
“Despite the crisis the world is facing with the Covid-19 pandemic, the French government still endeavors to fight against menstrual precarity and enable all women to access sanitary products, while 1.7 million French women lack it every day”, they said before concluding “periods are natural. Not having protections is not”.
