The Minister of Equality and Feminism of the Generalitat, Tània Verge, has introduced that the Catalan Executive will present free entry to menstrual merchandise “to all girls” throughout the framework of the 2023-2025 Menstrual Equity Plan that they permitted this Tuesday. The Catalan Generalitat was already a pioneer in distributing the menstrual equipment to third-year ESO college students, which features a cup, a pad and menstrual panties.
He mentioned this on the press convention after the Consell Executiu by which he specified that the plan contemplates some 60 measures that, amongst different targets, search to interrupt the social stigma with info and consciousness actions on menstruation and menopause. The forecast is to achieve 1.8 million girls of menstrual age in Catalonia in 2025.
Menstrual schooling amongst third-year college students of ESO
The implementation might be gradual. On the one hand, they are going to place disposable natural menstrual product dispensers in public locations, equivalent to universities. On the opposite hand, they are going to distribute reusable merchandise such because the menstrual cup and reusable pads.
The minister has affirmed that this 2023 they’ve prolonged the initiative ‘La meva regla, les meves regles’ to 1,120 public institutes in Catalonia, via which they are going to prepare some 85,000 third-year ESO college students in menstrual schooling and can search to attenuate the local weather influence by delivering reusable menstrual merchandise