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The inflation experienced by France affects the food sector but also that of hygiene. Also, four million French women are victims of menstrual precariousness, with financial difficulties in providing themselves with periodic protection during their periods.
It is an Ifop poll, carried out for the association Rules elementary which reveals this figure: four million women in France would suffer from menstrual precariousness.
Menstrual precariousness, or financial difficulty in providing periodic protection
This figure of four million women,
Maud Leblon, director of the association Rules elementary insists on this figure ay micro of our colleagues from France Info, April 17: four million women victims of menstrual precariousness, it is twice more than in 2021.
In the meantime, inflation has passed by. The prices of period protection have increased in supermarkets, plunging women with the lowest incomes into menstrual precariousness.
Young women are the most affected
According to the association, which issued a press release on the issue a few days before Women’s Rights Day on March 8, “the evolution of this figure is more than ever alarming” and “it is the young people who find themselves on the front line” with “nearly one out of two young French women (44% of menstruating French women aged 18 to 24) who experience difficulties in obtaining protection and among them, 330,000 young women do not regularly have access to the periodic protection they need need”.
A call for a “scale response”
If she welcomes the implementation of reimbursement from 2024 of reusable periodic protection (panties and menstrual cups) for those under 25, the president of the association calls for a large-scale response to this problem. “It is necessary, as of now, to put in place a global and radical solution so that the rules are no longer synonymous with discrimination. We are calling for strong measures to allow access to protection for all people who need it and urgently to all young people, a public weakened by the health situation and inflation in recent years”.