Period poverty in the pandemic Blog
Gender
Periods don’t stop in a pandemic. As we celebrate International Women’s Day and observe one year living with Covid-19, I spoke with three Fellows leading organisations to address period poverty and gender equality in the UK and beyond.
They provided key insights into their work and reflected on how their organisations have adapted to meet the increased need for period products over the past year.
In March last year, the UK seemed to collectively ask: how could we survive without something as essential as toilet paper? Panic ensued. Photos of bare shelves made headlines and heated debates commenced around hoarding of toilet paper. One of our first lessons of Covid-19 became the severe inequality in people’s access to essential goods.