I’m wearing black to work today. It was a conscious decision: my Health app tells me my period is due any hour and I don’t fancy risking a colleague tapping me on the shoulder to tell me I might want to go to the bathroom. “I cannot think of a much more traumatic experience than that,” as tennis legend Judy Murray put it last week.
Murray was of course referring to a much more public and mortifying prospect than any office mishap I could suffer: that of being on your period while competing at Wimbledon, which has long been known for its strict all-white policy. Last night, partly thanks to Murray, news came that many of her professional successors will have spent their careers waiting for: that the All England Club is likely to relax its ban on women players wearing coloured underwear next summer in a bid to “[prioritise] women’s health”.
