Should Paid 'Menstrual Leave' Be a Thing?

[Wounded Bear]

24. That's kind of what came to my mind...

Going back to the fundies and of course the Jewish, the Bible has some explicit rules regarding women during their menstrual cycle. Yeah, the term is "unclean."

I don't know if there is a religious part of this argument, I'm not religious and can be insensitive to that kind of stuff. But I'm over 50 and have lived and worked around a few different women over the years, so I know it can be very much an individual thing, and also varies from month to month for the same woman. Most women, you just can't tell, but in many cases that might just be them sucking up and working though it because "that's what you do."

Frankly, I agree with the poster above commenting that this should be covered as normal sick days. And I think the number of authorized sick days should be raised mandatorily. Conservatives will probably look at that as "coddling" and setting up a program that lazy women will take advantage of. I like to think that progressives and liberals would be a bit more compassionate about it.