Thursday, December 31ST, 2015. In India, members of the Temple ask for a period detector because they won’t allow that women are able to be in the place during this stage of “impurity”. In this regard, Prayar Gopalakrishnan, president of the Divine Office Properties Temple; weeks ago at a press conference held in the southern Indian state of Kerala, referred to the creation of a machine menstrual detector for cycle in women, “to scan if the time is right without menstruation, for a woman in the Temple “.
Currently, Indian women live in a progressive and limiting discrimination during their menstrual period; being forbidden activities such as handling food or cooking, sleeping in a separate room or separated from their families or spouse beds; outrageous situation that has led to go out and speak out against a taboo created thousands of years for their natural condition.
For this reason, a campaign called “Happy to bleed” has been launched and thousands of women in India have united against these discriminatory and sexist statements which have ruled for thousands of years. This campaign wants to raise awareness in the country that menstrual cycle is a natural process of life and should not stereotype them as “divine punishment” or “trash”; this was announced by activists in their Facebook account.
These publications have brought positive results as it has encouraged many Indian women against the application of the machine period detector in different social networks; claiming the natural sense of this cycle with countless pictures of sanitary napkins and messages.
On the social network Twitter, you can see some comments like “my ovaries, my blood, my problem”; “I decide when and where to go, not a priest”; “Nobody has the right to call my period impure.” There are countless slogans like these against the request to the Hindu Temple has done, showing signs of gender discrimination in our time.
The Council of Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative (WSSCC) under the United Nations (UN) has reported that only 1.6% of Indian women have a normal life during menstruation. The quality of life in India is very low, more than 335 million women and girls have their monthly menstrual cycle and only 12% of them may have some access to sanitary pads; while 200 million live misinformed on hygiene during this period.
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