“We have to begin to change the culture of our expectations for women,” said Dr. Tshepo Masango Chéry, assistant professor of history and African American studies department of history at the University of Houston.
Women’s contributions in history tend to be overlooked as with Wikipedia where women are the subject of only 17% of biography pages and the majority of published authors are still male.
Women are still fighting for many of the policy platforms advocated during the 1970s, according to Sarah Jane Glynn, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.
The #metoo movement, which began as a way for women to disclose that they were sexual assault survivors and to counter the message women may hear when expressing frustration against rape and sexual harassment, “Not all men.“
The Station House Officer at the RK Puram police station, while talking about the same, said that sanitary pads are still taboo but this move will help the female cops. He further said that anyone can come and collect a pad from the police station.
Additional DCP-II New Delhi District said that they have installed 15 sanitary pad dispensers in the female washrooms of the police stations.
Meanwhile, the Additional DCP South West said that such initiatives should be replicated at the other stations also. A female inspector at the RK Puram police station, while expressing her joy about the same, said that they are a total of 30 officers in the police station and that anyone can need a pad at any time. She further said that this is a nice initiative to break the taboo around menstruation.