Period Poverty















Just an idle question...

I caught an ad on TV tonight by a company that sells sanitary products. The ad was built round the issue of period poverty and was looking for donations - presumably from girls and women who buy these products - to help girls and women who can't afford them.

My question is: what's the profit margin on these products? I don't expect the company to sell products at a loss, but is there no room for the business to cut their profits by a small amount and use the surplus to provide sanitary goods for poor girls and women? Maybe through schools, food banks, doctors' surgeries, etc.

In the days when I had to buy sanitary products, I was always amazed at how much they cost. It seems to be like this for many products aimed at women. Not just perfume and make-up but pink razors come to mind: there's a price to be paid for being female, at least in the eyes of some manufacturers.

And if we just accept this, hell mend us.


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