My wife has two very bad and painful days (the first two) every period. I am not sure how she would handle if she had a job.
A media company in Mumbai is giving women a day off during their periods
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Re: A media company in Mumbai is giving women a day off during their periods
#12Question for the women ou there: Do you perceive this as a magnificent idea or as implying women have a periodic weakness that impacts their performance every month? Do you think this sort of policy feeds into wage gap stuff, or fights against it? As a reasonably feminist guy, I can't decide how to feel about this. It seems like it's implying women can't work one day of every month, and also seems like a great idea b…
hey, personally I do feel really bad in the first day and when I need to go to work I always think "I wish I could stay at home and work from there", so it really impacts my performance and from one side it is indeed a great idea, but it is sexism towards men - they also feel bad from time to time, so why not unify this practice for all and just give more paid day-offs / sick leaves, as was already mentioned in the comment above. Also, I am not very comfortable letting everyone in the company know when the period starts and gossip about that (yes, this is also a topic for gossip).
Re: A media company in Mumbai is giving women a day off during their periods
#13My wife would love this if it were implemented here.
Re: A media company in Mumbai is giving women a day off during their periods
#14interesting. If this ever became law, it would incentivize hiring men over women because you'll get 5% less value out of hiring a woman employee. the math: lets assume that there are 260 working days in a year. women get 12 extra holidays per year for their periods, which means they only work 248 out of the 260 days. 248/260 = 95.4%. very interesting indeed.
Maternity leave in theory has the same disadvantage, as generally women take this more than paternity leave (though I think that's changing) - it can be combatted by public denigration of companies that consider men to be preferable hires on the basis of lower risk of disruption and lower costs.
Thus I don't think it'd be a problem.
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#15That's sexism though.
exactly! I wonder how much things actually go both ways in mindset of social justice warriors of these days.
Re: A media company in Mumbai is giving women a day off during their periods
#16Stuff like this, while done with good intentions, can threaten to entrench discrimination by having different sets of rules and expectations for people based on their gender. A better solution would be to give 12 extra holiday days per year to everyone, but make it known that it's acceptable to take them under those circumstances.
Men don't get a day of pain and cramps each month so I don't see why we should get the day off. Periods aren't fun, and I don't think men deserve a day at the golf course in exchange.
Re: A media company in Mumbai is giving women a day off during their periods
#17interesting. If this ever became law, it would incentivize hiring men over women because you'll get 5% less value out of hiring a woman employee. the math: lets assume that there are 260 working days in a year. women get 12 extra holidays per year for their periods, which means they only work 248 out of the 260 days. 248/260 = 95.4%. very interesting indeed.
that's the assumption that a desk job is 8 hours straight productivity.
but manual labour might hedge towards male employment, that's true.
Re: A media company in Mumbai is giving women a day off during their periods
#18Stuff like this, while done with good intentions, can threaten to entrench discrimination by having different sets of rules and expectations for people based on their gender. A better solution would be to give 12 extra holiday days per year to everyone, but make it known that it's acceptable to take them under those circumstances.
Men don't get a day of pain and cramps each month so I don't see why we should get the day off. Periods aren't fun, and I don't think men deserve a day at the golf course in exchange.
Neither do all woman.
Re: A media company in Mumbai is giving women a day off during their periods
#19Stuff like this, while done with good intentions, can threaten to entrench discrimination by having different sets of rules and expectations for people based on their gender. A better solution would be to give 12 extra holiday days per year to everyone, but make it known that it's acceptable to take them under those circumstances.
> based on their gender
Based on their sex.
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/gendermed/sexandgender.html
> Sex refers to biological differences; chromosomes, hormonal profiles, internal and external sex organs.
> Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine.
May as well link some script from the Life of Brian to demonstrate that you can identify (gender) as a woman if you are a male but where's the foetus going to gestate (sex).
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#20This viewpoint is amazing. It's so brilliantly obvious that it's an American saying this statement due to the horrible laws that are so far in favour of the business it's not funny.
In Australia (for example) where I am, annually we have 20 days of leave and 10 sick days by law. Those sick days are available for use for any personal issue be it period pain or mental health. I understand in Europe the leave schedules are event more in favour of the worker we're by no means progressive with the levels of leave we provide.