One of the
main reasons for gender disparity within education is due
to a lack of affordable sanitary materials for girls once
they sexually mature. Girls tend to stay home and therefore
fall behind in their studies, or use inadequate and unhygienic
materials that lead to reproductive health issues.
Without proper sanitary materials and
knowledge girls and women are disadvantaged. A lack of hygienic
materials causes reproductive health problems and adds to
gender disparity in education.
When communities are not educated about biological gender differences, myths and stereotypes are formed to construe perspectives adding as an aggressor to gender equality initiatives.
Given the lack of resources of the most
basic of feminine hygiene needs places them at an enormous
disadvantage against their male peers resulting in gender
and education disparities, poor hygiene, reproductive health
issues, and the spread of disease.
Currently in the absence of necessary
sanitary materials for menstruation, previously disposed
or used napkins are shared and reused. Many of these disposed
napkins contain infectious bacteria that cause more harm
than the solution warrants.
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