period poverty

English

Noun

period poverty (uncountable)

1. The state of a woman too poor to be able to afford sanitary products (tampons, sanitary towels and the like) connected to her period.
   • 2018, Nadya Okamoto, Period Power, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 132:

     The most obvious population of menstruators affected by period poverty is homeless women, who struggle to afford any basic necessity, including shelter. And as we just discussed, period poverty for homeless women can be dangerous and detrimental to their health.

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Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 月經貧困／月经贫困 (yuèjīng pínkùn)