Spain passes law for Europe's first 'menstrual leave'

[MayReasonRule]

Spain's parliament approved a law granting paid medical leave to women suffering severe period pain.

The legislation entitles employees experiencing period pain to as much time off as they need, with the state social security system -- not employers -- picking up the tab for the sick leave.

Hear, hear!!!

[oregonjen]

1. About time! The pain is extremely debilitating for so many.

Would love to see this happen all over the world. My period knocks me out for 48 hours. I’m in intense pain and can’t do very much. Not to mention the flooding. Any menstruating person would understand flooding. Ugh.

[MayReasonRule]

3. I've been on the same date with the same young lady for the past 43 years...

We are inexorably linked in ways that are far beyond our own comprehension..

She got in trouble for staying up with me in their kitchen till 11:00 PM on a Friday night...


We've been together ever since...

The license was to serve the law, and our inculcated delusion (at the tine), although even then we both agreed, that our business with our bodies, belonged to no-one-else but each of us.

The constant through our lives together has been that the more things change, the more they tend to stay the same.

Hence...

There seems to be nothing as constant as change...

Which includes, each individual nuance, instance, and categorization our our collective and individual humanities.

We started our courtship with a whirlwind... when she kissed me she was certain that she was damning herself to hell, and in addition, would be publicly humiliating herself, because once she kissed me, she understood that she would... become pregnant.

I still cry about that... She's the love of my life.

I had better access to education in that regard, so when I was 17, and she was 16, I went to a medical library, copied pages out of books, bought books from the bookstore, and brought them on our dates for us to read together.

So, cutting it short after already going on too long, lol, she's endured a great deal of pain through menstrual periods and other particularly specific female maladies that have been extraordinarily difficult for her to manage pain-wise, much less, even function.

TLDR: I agree.

[RobinA]

2. Why Not

just increase the amount of paid sick time everybody gets? I'm not sure I like the "menstruation is a special sickness" vibe. For some women it is, but this brings back shades of "a woman can't be President, what happens if Mars attacks when she has her period?" thinking.