Roughly half
Sounds interesting.
Period pain and heavy bleeding linked with lower school attendance and GCSE results – new study
The article is by two women, in fact two women named Gemma.
Menstrual cycles are experienced by roughly half of the population for half of their lives. The experiences of menstruation on teenagers are incredibly important, especially as young people are starting periods earlier. Our research shows that this impact extends to their school attendance – and GCSE results.
Previous studies have reported that many young people take time off school and struggle to concentrate in school because of difficult experiences related to menstruation.
By roughly half the population is it? Any particular half? Teenagers, young people, yes, but can you share with us which teenagers/young people?
Menstrual-related pain and heavy bleeding are commonly experienced menstrual symptoms. For many, these symptoms may be minor and have few consequences. For others they can be severe and have a significant impact on daily life.
Normalisation of these symptoms makes it difficult for people, especially young people, to identify whether their symptoms are problematic. Societal pressures to hide or conceal menstruation and menstrual stigma also foster feelings of shame, making it challenging to have conversations about periods or ask for help. As a result, many people struggle with menstrual symptoms that affect their health and wellbeing.
Ah yes social pressures – thank you for bringing that up. Speaking of social pressures, any thoughts on the intense social pressure to delete words like “women” and “girls” and “female” from the language?
The results from this study fit with many previous studies that have shown menstrual issues can result in more absences and difficulties focusing and concentrating. They also provide further evidence that qualifications can be affected. This shows that menstrual difficulties can restrict the ability of young people to reach their full potential, with possible implications on access to further education or employment prospects.
Talk about laboriously concealing your own point. What they’re telling us is that menstruation is a giant hindrance to girls’ efforts to do well on exams and thus go on to higher education. That’s what the article is about and yet they deliberately conceal it.
Final two paragraphs:
Teenagers can face challenges managing menstruation at school. These may include restrictions on when they can go to the toilet, or inaccessibility of period products.
This can lead to many feeling that school is not a safe and supportive environment when menstruating. They may end up missing school entirely, or struggling to concentrate if they do attend school due to worries about managing and coping with menstruation and associated symptoms. Better support is needed for young people who menstruate and who struggle with problematic menstrual symptoms, so they are able to achieve their full academic potential.
It’s just astounding. They go to all that trouble only to hide the very point they’re trying to make. It doesn’t get more idiotic than that.
ALL LIVES MATTER, amirite?
If only there were some way to know which half of the population might be affected….
I’ve asked the school I volunteer at to see if we can find any evidence that girls’ attendance drops a week out of every month. The school has, thankfully, not gone for the unisex bathrooms that some schools have (I forcefully pointed out to the headteacher that that would be illegal) but the female bathrooms for the older girls are few in number and in poor shape, and on a corridor where everyone can see them. (The girls have permission to go to other bathrooms if they need to, but everyone can see them doing that too, so I don’t think it solves the problem for them of everyone knowing when they’re on their period.)
Ugh. I’m suddenly reminded of my privilege in having gone to a girls’ school. It merged with the boys’ school the year after my class graduated. Dodged a bullet!
If the trans cult gets it’s way, there will be no such thing as girls’ schools. Not because of progress, but of regress. Back to the days of no women only spaces, hard won by feminism in the 20th century. It’s ironic that the Trump ideal of regression (MAGA) and the trans cult have so much in common. The clash of these visions, self ID and the return of patriarchal white nationalism have so much in common, yet so opposed to each other. The losers, as always, are females. The blustering arrogance however, is shared. The ignorance and stupidity as well.