Emily Bell McCormick: 'We have worked with advocates in Idaho, Alabama, New Mexico and Georgia on similar bills in those states. Utah is leading the way.'
The specificity of that executive order, to place period products in state buildings, is no small matter. An estimated 1,698 restrooms will now have complimentary products, nearly 1,000 of those restrooms are used by the general public who visit those buildings.been considered a topic for the halls of Utah’s Capitol — or any other state capitol for that matter.
I personally was baptized into policy work by a belief in the need for menstrual policy. I’ll never forget four years ago, walking the enormous, echoey halls of the Capitol for the first time, on a mission to share how period products were a necessity, just like toilet paper. I sweat profusely in my legislative meetings and my voice cracked repeatedly when I testified in committee hearings.In 2002, the Utah Legislature recognized that one in four of our teens can’t afford period products.
The most important and most significant part of this trend, is that it is concretely changing the lives of individual women, girls and menstruators in our state. It is allowing for greater productivity in the workplace and greater dignity for the worker. It’s positively affecting public health outcomes, educational outcomes and mental health outcomes for half of our population. And any policy that affects half of a population, in reality affects us all.
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