Should women get paid MENSTRUAL LEAVE every month?

How is it supposed to boost productivity if you're paying a worker when they're not working? A worker who gets very little done because of illness is still getting more work done than a worker who's getting paid leave...

LolOol I choked on my drink.

Stupid feminism.

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What's the other option?

If a company is forced to give women more leave than men only because of sex (i.e. menstruation pain), then it's in the company's best interest to hire only men. The problem isn't nearly as bad for pat/maternity leave because a) both sexes can have the time off for newly born children and b) a company can hire another worker on the basis of a few months of pat/maternity leave. It's much more difficult to temporarily replace workers when a given number of female workers consistently take 1-3 days off during their time of the month.

Demanding more time off (paid time off, even) is shooting yourself in the foot and reducing your employability, because companies will know that female workers would be (if menstrual lave is made into a law) less efficient and more of a liability. I'm not going to deny that menstruation is uncomfortable, painful or even crippling butI don't think paid leave is the way to deal with it in a work environment because it's a detriment to women's employability and not a benefit to their health.

If you only employ men, you're opening yourself up to a sex discrimination case. Good luck in trying to justify that one.

I love how most of the people who have responded are males. Because of course, you all know what periods are like, don't you.

Oh, and just FYI, my last period left me in so much pain that I was unable to do virtually anything. Made worse by having a serious physical condition.

It wasn't that unusual as a teenager for me to either be unable to walk or vomit.

If you only employ men, you're opening yourself up to a sex discrimination case. Good luck in trying to justify that one.

You can easily justify it by explaining how being forced to give women up to 3 days extra paid leave a month is much more inefficient for organisations, businesses and ultimately the economy (businesses will leave and set up in areas without this law, leading to reduced prosperity, increased unemployment, etc) than hiring only men (who would not get the same paid leave) and ultimately results in less profit, lower employee motivation, and actually opens up the male/female divide in the workplace. Legally it's sketchy ground, but thankfully the short-sighted proposition of a paid menstrual leave law isn't actually being put forward.

But not every woman would need to take that leave every single month. Hence why it can't be justified.

Oh brilliant. So you're happy with penalising me for something that every single month which is out of my control? Would you be saying the same if you were in my situation? I doubt it?

Amen!

I think they should, with obvious regulating checks taking place, due to the extreme amount I lose and the fact I end up fainting with mine I am on some strong medication. Like depression if affects people differently (conditions such as endemitriosis or poly cystic ovaries are another, I actually suffer from both) If you literally collapse from the pain and lose enough blood that doctors originally think you've been stabbed (an unfortunate experience which was so humiliating it's stuck in my mind... that was over ten years ago now. I am 21. Everyone is different so please can people try and be more understanding of others. Not all of us are so luck to have relatively pain free lives as the moderator said

But is there a way of checking? There are some women like me, who don't have heavy periods, don't actually have anything wrong with them (PCOS, etc) but still suffer a lot each month.

You know, without feminism you wouldn't be able to even have a job. You'd be expected to find a husband, have children and stay at home. No more no less. Nor would you be able to vote. Don't blame feminism for a proposal that sounds a bit ridiculous, well ridiculous if they apply it to all women.