The following report is a blog post by the U.S. Department of Labor, published on May 29th:
To commemorate this Menstrual Hygiene Day, the Women’s Bureau is breaking down the stereotypes and stigmas that have made menstruation a taboo topic in the workplace.
Menstruation is a natural part of half our population’s life, and yet it has been overlooked in the context of work – perhaps because it is seen as a personal issue or uncomfortable to discuss. The taboo nature of menstruation has likely contributed to the lack of understanding about its impact on workers, which can include challenges related to symptoms of premenstrual syndrome; unexpected or heavy bleeding; and pain from cramps, headaches or migraines while at work.
Implementing workplace policies that address menstruation can enable menstruating employees to continue to fully participate in and contribute to the workforce while mitigating adverse effects to their mental and physical health. Most employers are already ensuring easy access to bathrooms and providing proper handwashing facilities and regular breaks during work hours. And menstruating employees may be protected under laws and regulations against discrimination on the basis of age, sex and disability (or a combination of these characteristics), the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, sick leave requirements for federal contractors and state paid family and medical leave or sick leave laws. But there is more that employers can do to support menstruators.
Here are five more ways employers can make workplaces more menstruation-friendly:
- Provide a sufficient supply of varied period products in bathrooms and ensure menstruators can access products privately.
- Allow flexibility in uniforms, with options in dark colors to ensure menstruators do not need to worry that an unexpected period or heavier flow will lead to noticeable stains.
- Allow scheduling and work flexibilities such as telework, flexible work hours or shift modifications.
- Guarantee access to paid sick leave, provide explicit guidance that menstruation is a qualifying condition for the leave – whether for symptom management or for related medical appointments – and ensure that employees and their managers are aware these are allowable reasons to use sick leave.
- Educate and train workers and managers about the symptoms of menstruation and how they can impact employees at work and include support services for menstruation in any Employee Assistance Program offered.
Many of the same policies and protocols needed to support those managing symptoms of menstruation are already being implemented by many employers. Employers can make small adjustments to worker protections, flexibilities and accommodations to ensure that workplaces are more inclusive of menstruating employees, reduce the stigma surrounding menstruation and improve menstruators’ quality of life at work. Making workers aware that they may use a workplace flexibility for menstruation-related reasons can help create an environment in which workers and managers are more comfortable discussing these topics and requesting the help they need.
Menstruation does not have to be taboo. Employees who feel supported can continue to thrive in the workplace during their periods. By providing basic protections and accommodations, employers can signal a commitment to ensuring all workers maintain the dignity they deserve.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Even though we are no longer under the Levitical Old Testament laws, the “issue of blood,” as it is called, is discussed in Leviticus 15:19-33 and how it would make the woman or the man who lied with her “unclean.”
“Menstruating employees” – Can’t say ‘women,’ that would be bigoted and not inclusive enough to the trannies, apparently.
This is another reason among many why women are not meant to be in the labor force. It’s not her place and not her role. Period.
Proverbs 11:22 As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Piggy-backing on the reasons why Gen-Z – in particular young men – are not entering the workforce, enlisting in the military, and does not trust the government is because of things such as this. The media won’t report on this for obvious reasons, but Zoomers, many of them, are no longer willing to tolerate and go through the rigmarole of nonsense of “inclusivity, diversity and equity” hires and training, and be tattled on and reprimanded for “bad speak” and misuse of pronouns, and worried about if Sally is on her time of the month and needs special attention; on top of all the other societal, governmental, financial, and spiritual factors I’ve covered in other reports.
SEE: Poll Finds Young Americans Believe US Is ‘A Dying Empire Led By Bad People’
Increasing Number Of Gen-Z’ers Are Going To Trade Schools And Forgoing Traditional College
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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“This is another reason among many why women are not meant to be in the labor force. It’s not her place and not her role. Period.” TRUTH!!!!!!!
Feminism is a cancer, a stage IV cancer that has totally mutilated this country as well as women being in the workforce.
Women being in the workforce started in World War II and America saw it made Americans have more income and more money so it got promoted.
Women’s suffrage and feminism came in and made it worse!
God is going to give these feminist witches a serious beating!
Our regular “cast of characters” saw all those tax dollars they could collect if they could put women in the workforce. Now it’s almost impossible for the average husband and wife to afford a house, car, fuel, food….and a family without the wife working. All these free government giveaways cost….on the backs of women working. And let’s not forget…..there are some reasons for women to work. My husband is deceased…..any suggestions where I can make money without working to support myself and my family?
BTW – *Redfin News) First-Time Home Buyers Must Make $76,000 to Afford the Typical U.S. Starter Home–Up 8% From a Year Ago….. How many young people looking for a starter home make this amount money with a stay-at-home mom? AND how many of these “stars-in-the-eyes” young people want a “starter” home? My niece received her first paycheck…saw all of the deductions and said….”I’ll never be able to buy a home.” She’s probably right….Didn’t the WEF say you will own nothing and be happy? Don’t know about you, but I never voted for these people. (Not very happy with the ones that I have voted for.)
Remember – Jesus said ….If you love me….Keep My Commandments…..
IMO – This DOL Guidance is ridiculous.
The housing market thing is just gross. Even if there is a “crash,” prices relatively won’t fall down that much and will still be unaffordable. The only real way to own a home now is by sheer chance or inheritance, assuming you can afford to pay all the accrued interest and payments involved. It would take a massive culling of the population to stop some of this, but even then all the hedge funds and the Blackrocks of the world will just sweep in and by them all up. I’ve already consigned that I’ll probably never own a home, unless by sheer chance or a miracle from God. Time will only tell.
I would suggest reading through Proverbs 31 and consider all the different things the virtuous woman in that passage should do. Perhaps make and sell clothing items, food and produce, artisan stuff, candles, etc. You can resell items, like going to Goodwill and consignment shops and reselling items for a better price on Posh Mark, Etsy, Ebay, etc.
As a woman, I appreciate most of this article.
I totally agree that women shouldn’t be in the workforce. I’m a stay at home mom and I homeschool but my unsaved husband wants me to get a job aside from what I do because of the worldly pressures of seeing me as an anomaly. Also, I’ve witnessed I’ve had brethren who claim to be Christian think it not a big deal for a woman to get a job citing Prov. 31. It makes me sad. Not that I don’t think a women couldn’t earn from home using her hands somehow.
My husband is a drunkard and has gone on to commit adultery. I need prayers, brothers and sisters. I know the Lord’s will is for me to continue to train up my children. Please pray for the Lord to show me what to do to produce income from home and that my husband get salvation from the Lord Jesus. Heavy heart here but God’s grace is sufficient for me. Thank you.
I am very sorry to hear that. I will pray for your situation.
Thank you brother! Very much appreciated.
People are going crazy over the trump verdict.
Menstruation: flowers, has nothing to do with women, seed, blood, fruitfulness, generations anymore, don’t you know? The witches (and not just feminine ones) have declared: Woman, you are unbound!
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Whenever a city has a major tranny-pride, alphabet soup event, real women can’t even find ‘menstruation paraphernalia’ because the freaks, weirdos & perverts buy them up! They use them for different reasons, of course: either for playing ‘pretend’ & spellcraft like the stunted intellectual children & deceived witches & sorcerers that they are: for defiling mockery & ‘spelling’; or because their practices destroy their bodies physically & functionally so that they have a practical use for them: there’s a reason that the Lord struck the Philistines with ’emerods’, hemorrhoids, as a just punishment for putting the ark of the Lord in the temple of their filthy Dagon. (Thinking the plague of mice had something to do with the filth as well, as the ‘flies’ of Beelzebub, & disease, that attend idolatry& its practices.)
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There’s a reason that sinners philosophize, and avoid plain, meaningful, real & complete communication for their crafted ‘dialogue’….which includes blameshifting distractions, BTW, trying to provoke, to agitate, a sinful, unthinking, reaction of pride, undue & indiscriminate violence (a crusade, inquisition, first Irish or St. Bartholomew’s Day organized massacre) etc.
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Offenses must come, but woe to them by whom they come. We must tread carefully, proving all things, remembering the long-suffering of the Lord, tamping down the flesh, about the Lord’s business until he comes, while bewaring of the danger of devouring one another, for we have a subtle enemy.
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According to the wise of this world (see 1 Corinthians), it’s all either matter& chemistry, or superstition/spirituality/willful insanity & not-knowing. It’s nothing but pure philosophy, hatred of knowledge or connection with truth & reality which acknowledges the Creator & creaturely limitation. The postmodern view of the governing Luciferians now being imposed upon mankind says ‘believe’ & the masses blindly do so. They’ve trained their fleshly, animalistic responses like Pavlov ….but are moving on down to less obvious, more subtle techniques like those of Loyola & his merciless antichrist spirit. He got his wisdom from a recurring vision of a ‘golden serpent’, don’t you know!
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Luther had his issues, but he didn’t give over utterly like his contemporary Loyola! And God blessed that immensely. Men capitalize on his weaknesses to justify their Augustinian & antisemitic, cruel authority & cloaked tyranny….not his strengths & the word of God he gave again to the German people in the line of prophetic fulfillment leading up to the King James Bible.
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Rome used the Saxons to wipe out & tyrannize Great Britain’s Christians who’d had the word of God & been taking it out since the days of Paul, but the Lord used that to fulfill Psalm 12. The world & spirit of antichrist hates English even as it uses it to Babel-uniting, Babylonian ends….deconstructing, confounding, redefining like the father of lies they serve. It all depends who your spiritual daddy is!…& God through the grace of his word, spirit & conscience, & the great doctrine of spiritual adoption, & of the kinsman-redeemer, gives men choice in the matter!
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Reminds you of Joseph, a great prophetic type of the Lord Jesus Christ in the scriptures, ‘you meant it for evil, God turned it to good & the saving of many lives’….and Romans 8:28 KJB. The mysteries that God revealed through Paul for this age, with glimpses into that to come in the latter, general epistles & Revelation….which, in turn, shed even more light on the Old Testament scriptures & their prophetic meaning. What a Book! Matchless. Incomparable (which is why the children of Belial & disobedience, subject to the god of this world, will do ANYTHING to keep you from having it, reading it, comparing & proving by it!) Jesus Christ, the Word, the one in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwelleth, holds those keys: not Rome & her cronies coming together, even with the apostate Jews included.
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Roll over, ‘speak’, say this & not that….obey, & do it blindly. Tricks & magic for money, power & control over others: sin.
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God’s word exposes it, shows the way out, & we must not presume to judge before the time when God will manifest the content, intent & end of every heart, but stay the course remembering the assurance of the word & the blessed hope. Sophisticated sin is sneaky, subtle…and many skillfully use & wave that wand, use that rod, today. (Thinking of the recent clip of Dave Ramsey & 1 Timothy 6….the whole chapter: the ‘conservative’ arm of the MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT.)
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Romans 1 & the bottom of the barrel like Canaan is where it all ends for those ignoring & denying truth, the evidenced word revealing God who reasons with us, who created, saves & judges. Every dispensation ends in failure proving that all the glory is of God & that he is just. We have nothing to glory of in that, & nothing that we did not receive. (Corinthians again.)
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Every false way has to close their eyes & stop reasoning to deny that: They’re all Luciferians. Sure, do what thou wilt is encouraged…then they of the ‘hidden knowledge’, the ‘serpent wisdom’, flatter themselves of their superiority as they do what they wilt: amass power over others, make money off of the carnage& folly, etc. Lots of money treating the attending diseases, outcomes, surgical pretenses… Blasphemous ‘deliverance’ lies, & impartations of devils in the name of Jesus: Greg Locke & the like.
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Lots of ill-gotten gain to plunder.
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And, don’t forget that men can play the cunning feminist pretense & emotionalism game, too, to avoid responsibility & to pile sin upon sin. Blame the woman, Adam. And, remember Rachel’s excuse as she sat upon the camel’s furniture with her father’s idols inside? Her ‘ace in the hole’ & fall-back, just in case? She may have gotten right through the chastening the Lord put on her through her life (which is typical of religious people as a whole), or she may not have: we’re not plainly told though the name she sought to give to Benjamin argues against it: for the fruit of the vine of Sodom is bitter. Leah is on the record as giving it up: now I will trust the Lord, she said.
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The ugly sister. The undesired.
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And Jacob wasn’t blameless in the matter, influenced by the deteriorating, devolving world society around him & conforming to it, suffering chastening of his own as the Lord revealed & taught him evidentially & through life. The Mosaic Law was given to preserve & to bind men in with regard to family, marriage….& to avoid some of the bitterness & sin of much marriage (Pergamos!), polygamy, dog-eat-dog & blameshifting.
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We know, too, that the Law is good, even in our age & after the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled & abolished much of it in his own flesh& victory over sin, flesh and the devil. The book of Romans informs us of the doctrinal meat of the matter, with Hebrews adding more light, as well as the general epistles forewarning us of the mystery of iniquity & spirit of antichrist that even then was already in the world, & showing us prophetically what the latter days would be like. Galatians & Colossians informing us further.
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Women are in the workforce because of sin from both sides: disobedience regarding keepers at home from women, & from men who wish to avoid true manhood & Christian duty & responsibility. Society that hates God’s order& family….backed by Lucifer & Luciferians who cultivate & exploit sin, to ‘manage’ it, rather than to fight it, to expose it with the foolishness of faithful preaching by faithful men (both within the congregations, & proclaiming the Gospel & offense of the cross w/ the evidenced hope of the resurrection, publicly in the streets) drying up all that easy money, false control & easy exploitation of idolatry.
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That was one of the goals of Erasmus Darwin & his ‘gentleman club’ elites gleaning from the filthy pagans & repopularizing pagan evolutionary philosophy & religious syncretism from the beginning, & it came with excuse for sin & acting like animals without conscience, the spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching out the inward parts, & that candle can be put out. (Candle is a fruitful study in the King James Bible: 16 occurrences, 2×8: the number of division & choice, & providential grace as those 8 souls in the ark brought through judgment.
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No wonder all the fake bibles take ‘reason’, ‘study’, ‘understand’, ‘prove’, ‘sobriety’ out of their perver$ion$: it’s not good for their business of merchandising souls. And their pride won’t have it.
No wonder they teach people that they have to ‘go into the silence’, ‘stop thinking’, ’empty yourself’, etc. Trust yourself, your inner self. They say that intellect is the ‘slayer of the real’. They make mindfulness it’s opposite! Many of them becoming victims of their own folly even as they do their damage to others, believing their own wicked & unsanctified imaginations, believing their own press & propaganda….some of them ‘puffed’ like Graham for a reason.
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Remember, “Puff, the Magic Dragon”…..they’ve come a long way, baby! Meanwhile the equally deceived, wicked & foolish materialist capitalizes on that like the upper levels & ‘deeper in’ types of every nicolaitan & caste system.
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You have to be really foolish, mad, insane, full of devils to receive their garbage & so many hidden motives of sin & wickedness.
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Menstruation isn’t Bible, it’s from the Latin for month & blood pointing straight back to Genesis 3, the gods …& goddesses of the old fertility cults of pantheism, witchcraft idolatries, so you can’t have it in plain English. Even the connection to the ‘birds and the bees’ with the term ‘flowers’, garden enclosed etc has to be defiled, philosophized, ‘scientized’: deconstructed & then reconstructed ‘closer to the heart’s desire’. Luciferianism.
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This world is fallen. And, because of sin, many women end up in the workforce for a variety of reasons & a variety of contributing sins: for all have sinned & fallen short of the glory of God. Not many churches/meaning local assembles stayed the course on caring for widows & the abandoned, & the fascistic/communistic socialist philosophy & machine worked to that end, seducing, distracting, evil men & seducers waxing worse & worse.
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They teach their antichrist Luciferian religion through the arts, the schools, most churches (whether they meet in buildings called ‘churches’ or ‘temples’, or in the woods & meadows under cover of darkness), movies, video games, AI, their ‘sciences’…..the question each soul must ask themselves is: am I still linked in with all of that where I don’t have to be? Am I truly proving all things & being transformed by the word rather than the words & doctrines of men and devils? Do I know where the lines are, & do I seek not to transgress them? Do I allow myself, to be entertained by the art & doctrines of devils because it feels good? Am I using my liberty as a cloak for licentiousness? Am I conforming to the world? Where do I stand with regard to the use of pharmakoiae/sorcery disarming drunkenness, psych meds & ‘health’ techniques, disciplines? Do I use humanist philosophy Luciferian religion as a crutch or an excuse for my own sin? Do I come alongside widows & the weak brother or sister, is my faith the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen….or just hot air? Am I a mystic, a spiritualist, in practical terms? How can I counter the evil & lies?
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It gets messy. We’re called to separation, but not exemption from the messiness of the war. Not to grow karmic & antinomian, or ascetic & monastic in our separation. It feels good to point from the mountaintop, or some ‘higher level’, ‘deeper understanding’, but those who compare themselves amongst themselves are not wise (instead, we’re to compare spiritual things with spiritual), nor are they truly obedient to the full commission of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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(Corinthians again: written to a carnal, infantile church….ouch & ouch, & praise God for his mercy that endureth forever. David was wise to cast himself at God’s mercy, trusting his will & holiness, even in terrible judgment, rather than to trust in the mercy & will of men.)
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We have the parable of the Pharisee & the publican in the temple, in their approach to the Lord, & we can approach with boldness, in Christ, & Christ in us….as those seated in heaven with him! Not to mention ‘ye know not what spirit ye are of’. So, there is still the need of approaching with humble awareness of who we are & of the corruptible fallibility of this remaining flesh, and necessary awareness of where we still live as pilgrims& strangers.
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It sure ain’t the kingdom of heaven on earth, & it won’t be until the millennium.
The ideal scenario would be for a woman to take care of her children etc. if she can have children.
My reality as a woman is I have to work. If a man leaves a home for whatever reason, we have no choice but to work.
I don’t rely on men or anyone else. For me to stay afloat I have to work and find a roommate to survive the expenses due to inflation, etc.