Women don’t need ‘period leave’, we need a pay gap day instead | Abi Wilkinson

Gender inequality in the workplace won’t be achieved by focusing on menstruation. How about looking at the routine unpaid labour that women do?For anyone who has suffered with headaches, cramps and other menstruation-related symptoms, the Zambian custom of “Mother’s Day” has a certain obvious appeal. Originally observed informally, the entitlement was eventually coded into the country’s labour law. All women have a legal right to a day off from work each month, to b