period poverty
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- The state of being too poor to be able to afford sanitary products (tampons, sanitary towels and the like) connected to one's 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.