Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K. Kavitha said on December 15 that she was disheartened by Union Minister Smriti Irani’s stand that there was no need for paid menstrual leave.
The Telangana MLC said she was appalled to see such “ignorance” of women’s struggles on the part of the Union Women and Child Development Minister.
Ms. Irani said in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that menstruation was a natural part of life and shouldn’t be treated as a handicap requiring special leave provisions. “We should not propose issues where women are denied equal opportunities just because somebody, who does not menstruate, has a particular viewpoint..,” she said.
