Companies Should allocate two days a month for women to have period leave
Featuring Brianna Holt
Summary
A straphanger makes her pitch for mandatory period leave: two days a month, codified by law, to deal with cramps, nausea, and what she calls "a Charlie horse in my uterus." Kareem's immediately sold. The reasoning's straightforward: periods bring the same symptoms as a cold or flu, so why burn sick days on something that happens every month like clockwork? She's thought through the rollout. If some women don't need it, fine, don't use it. But for those who do, it should be right there alongside maternity and paternity leave. They joke about calling Elizabeth Warren to make it a national bill. The period bill. Started here, on Subway Takes, with Brianna Holt's DMs open for questions.
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So what's your take? Companies should allocate two days a month for women to have period leave.
100% agree. Period leave. I am in. Period.
Period T. I have a plan for like how it should roll out and why I think this is necessary. When you're on your period, the first one to two days are the worst, the most intense. Uh, cramps, nausea, headaches, diarrhea, lower back pain, muscle aches. These are the same symptoms that people have for the common cold, the flu, all these other things that you get sickly for. I don't want to use my sick days for expected sickness that I'm going to feel with my period.
We could benefit as a society by giving the ladies some time off. I feel like it needs to be like written into a rule that we can have these two days off.
The period law. We have maternity leave. We have paternity leave. I think we should have period leave.
Do you think that some women might be upset and say, "I don't need that." I think some women will say they don't need it. If they don't need it, simply don't use it. That has nothing to do with me. I need it. I don't want to be at work when I feel like I have a Charlie horse in my uterus.
I'm in. Cool.
Put it in motion. Who do you want to call? I don't know. Zoran.
Don't call Zoran. Don't call Zoran. Zoran has enough stuff he's going to have to—
I mean, because then he's only going to do it for New York. We need a national bill. Call Elizabeth Warren or something. I'll call Elizabeth Warren. Call Elizabeth Warren. Tell her we want to add this to the list of things to do. Call it the period bill. Start it here on Subway Takes. Brianna's in charge. If you have any questions, just reach out to her. My DMs are open available there.