28 May Menstrual Hygiene Day Let's break taboos !

May 28, we celebrate Menstrual hygiene day . The objective of observing this day is to raise awareness of the challenges women and girl face worldwide due to menstruation and highlights solutions addressing these challenges .
Choosing May 28 as menstrual hygiene day has a meaning . May is the 5th month of the year and women menstruate on average five days every month and their cycle tends to be around 28 days . The theme of this year It's Time for Action raises awareness and combats taboos associated with menstrual hygiene with the goal of enabling women and girls to achieve their full potential.
Globally, more than half of women are currently of reproductive age—and menstruation is a monthly reality.
 Yet in many countries , people still faces serious challenges when it come to managing periods . Myths, taboos , stigma, and harmful gender norms around menstruation exacerbate the difficulties  for girls and women across the world.  Due to this many girls to miss and leaves school or work go into isolation .
Women and men of all ages should be aware of the menstruation hygiene through an open dialogue and education in house and in school with this often hiding issue. 

Taboos related to Menstruation in India

Women are prohibited from participating in normal life while menstruating .She must be purified before she is allowed to return to her family and day to day chores of her life .
Women on their period are banned from entering temples or places of worship. Most sources say that it is because these women are considered “ashuddh” or unclean and so, need to stay away from temples - the most holy of places.
This adamance on the impure and holy is even taken to new extremes with women not being allowed to touch the tulsi plant, since it’s considered holy. They say that the shadow of a menstruating woman can in fact, kill a Tulsi plant. You’re just that impure.Women on their period cannot… touch pickles.
we live in 21st centuary and believing such ridicuolous myths thats totally irrelevant. However , scientifically it is known that actual cause of menstruation is ovulation followed by missed chance of pregnancy that results in bleeding form the endometrial vessels and is followed  by preparations of the next cycle. Therefore, there seems no reason for this concept to persist that menstruating women are "impure".

Impact for these taboos to women's Life 

Such these taboos about menstruation impact on girl's and women's mentally , emotionally, and lifestyle and most importantly health . These include  over nearly 23 million girls drop out of school annually due to lack of proper menstrual hygiene management facilities, which include availability of sanitary napkins and logical awareness of menstruation. 70 per cent of mothers with menstruating daughters considered menstruation as dirty and 71 per cent adolescent girls remained unaware of menstruation till menarche. Over 77% of menstruating girls and women in India using old cloth which is often reused.  Further In India sometimes resort to using ashes, newspaper, dried leaves and husk sand to absorption. due to this increase susceptibility to infection, with the odor of menstrual blood putting girls at risk of being stigmatized .
Taboos , myths and shame surrounding menstruation can lead teasing, shaming, and exculsion from daily activities and have negative effect on girls feeling of dignity.
Period shame rooted in gender inequality . cultural and religious traditions around periods are often derived from discriminatory. As a result and women are often expected to refrain from normal activities , such as bathing or cooking towards menstruation affect girls 'self- esteem".

Benefits of period shame free society

By improving menstrual health and tackling period shame we can improve girl's attendance and performance at school : ( often when girls are menstruate then she suffers some abnormal pain , cramps etc so all of that when she wants leave for school they generally give excuse of stomache , back pain and fever like that why she is not saying  Because of periods pain i couldn't have come school . This is my personal opinion in schools we have take the idea of period leaves It's not a shame) break down taboos and misconceptions around menstruation ; raise girls self - esteem and enable girls to fully participate in all aspect of society.




A woman on her period is normal. Let her eat what she likes, let her sleep where she wants, let her have (consensual happy) period sex because frankly, that is rather phenomenal. Let her buy feminine hygiene products that don’t need to be first wrapped in newspaper and then encased in black plastic bags as to hide the shame of the monthly hormone monster. Let’s kill the period taboo. Bleed in peace, women.
 And one thing this is very important every men must be aware of this issue and they also know that how much pain women suffering these days. In these days women wants special attention due to cramps, mood swings so do special care of your home ladies and try to understand their situation. 
DON'T TALK IN CURTAIN SHELLS TALK OPENLY!!
 Periods is not curse it's a boon.