Ohio House Votes to Give State’s Inmates Free Menstrual Products

Ohio House votes to give state’s inmates free menstrual products

The Ohio House approved a bipartisan bill this week that would require all Ohio correctional facilities to provide menstrual products to inmates free

Free feminine hygiene products for inmates approved by Ohio House

House Bill 29 would mandate state prisons and local jails provide menstrual products, after testimonies revealed supplies can be used as leverage against women.

Ohio House votes to make tampons and pads free for incarcerated women

Incarcerated women should be given free tampons, pads and showers while menstruating, some state lawmakers say.

Period Pains – Where The Tampon Tax Is Highest And Lowest In Europe – altnews.org

Around the world, women pay high tax rates on period supplies like pads and tampons. As Statista’s Valentine Fourreau reports, these items

Free period products a bloody good idea | Brimbank & North West

Free period products should be made mandatory at all community sporting facilities to support people who menstruate and play sport, according to new Victoria University (VU) research. A collaboration between VU’s Women in Sport team and Share the Dignity, an Australian charity working to end period poverty, surveyed 330 women across the country finding 68 per cent skipped sport due to their period, 90 per cent worried about leaking, and 72 per c…

Three years ago, then-Representative Omar Fernández submitted a bill to exempt sanitary pads from taxes, considering them a basic hygiene item for women that, in his opinion, should not be subject to any tax. The bill briefly passed through a committee, but never received a report or was submitted to the full House of Representatives, which caused it to expire and be removed from the legislative information system for not recording the necessary…