It's that time of the month - free time?
This is one of the options in a community art center in the UK I have provided as part of its new "period of insurance" that could include home women who work or take leave during menstruation.
Bex Baxter, Director of coexists with headquarters in Bristol, was inspired to change the policy of the workplace by their own extreme menstrual pain and see other employees come to work in spite of them. Despite severe discomfort there is not the norm, affecting up to 20 percent of women up.
"This means that I always take the time away from work or I drop or to a room in agony topic," he said.
Let take a day and a half to work at home rather than suffer through terrible three days and unproductive us now. And because it's time away from their last "winter cycle," she said, is three times more productive during their "Spring Cycle" - after the end of his term.
"I have learned over the cycle and how to listen and give you what you need. My pain is reduced, I'm not black and I have no more pain I can not handle."
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Baxter wants to lead a movement, that the benefits of a positive working period espousing. Your signature is a seminar entitled "Pioneers of policy, evaluation of the natural cycles at work" be on March 15, said they have 50 companies signed so far.
The seminar is led by Alexandra Pope, author of The American genius: The healing power of menstruation, and an "educator in the vanguard - the new menstruality emerging field of exploration of menarche psycho travel of women in menopause and - beyond.
Pope will present a new work model on the menstrual cycle based and to explain how to operate a policy that take into account the biology of women, can maximize efficiency.
Coexist, where only 7 of the 24 staff are male, working with the pope to discuss the details of the new policy.
formalized guidelines will give women in the office - even those who do not suffer from acute pain - a choice of how to work these days, either to work as usual, do the housework or take leave, and more to do later.
The goal is to synchronize the workflow with the natural cycles, to create a more productive and creative space.
The menstrual cycle is a tool for stress management and personal care - a resource that, because the issue is largely unknown, considered taboo, said the Pope.
"The menstrual cycle is a very healthy dynamic in us, a cycle and like all cycles is a positive process," he said.
"When women are in contact with cycles that deal with stress and manage their energy so as not to burn."
Men and women need to be formed over the menstrual cycle, so it treated as an asset and not as a liability, the Pope said. Like all cycles, based on a rate of activity and rest periods. Men have the same need of rest, he added, they are not just a menstrual cycle to remind them.
to ignore these rhythms is not only bad for productivity, but also for the health of women, he said.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists also the importance of social menstruation cycles. It is in December, including menstrual cycles used as one of the vital recommended to evaluate health.
Baxter, 40, believes that women the flexibility to make their cycles to suppress the added stress of trying to help to alleviate what goes into your body in front of him - try to avoid to happen in talking about the taboo.
"Many women want to be valued equally, so that women are integrated into the cycles and systems of male energy in an attempt to be considered valuable."
However, a work that a policy distinguishes the differences between the sexes in the borders "benevolent sexism" is to promote gender equality, but also undermines women in the workplace, said Ivona Hideg, Professor of Organizational Behavior Lazaridis at the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University.
It is concerned that women who use them are stigmatized and punished with potentially less rebates and other rewards.
It could also perpetuate stereotypes that women are emotionally volatile or less competent than men, he said.
"Women can no major orders received due to the fact that their time in the next month, which will give a duty easier for introducing this difficult mission, but could be this difficult task, you need to be promoted to the next level. "
Many women who have been struggling to win the respect of their male counterparts, and let the policy to make the biology of the most prominent in the workplace would ill women take only one day, Linda Stockton said assistant professor of strategic management at McMaster University.
"I've never seen a woman complained heard about this problem, I'm sure it took a few days because of cramps, but it's a stigma to take a vacation," he said.
"But really put into a policy so everyone my cycle knows? I do not want the public."
Men coexist in the office to support the initiative and said that they cycle impacts how they want to understand their relationship with women, Baxter said.
The agency is already working on a flexible schedule and allows a man suffer from migraines, to say goodbye when headaches are the worst, then later set the lap time.
Baxter said he fears not that politicians abused or their female employees cycles are synchronized, so that the office practically empty at certain times of the month.
"We will not give up. We have to do the work of the company," Baxter said.
"And I do not want to be considered women as victims. The menstrual cycle is not really a disease, not a problem, but said that for so long."
Menstrual license is not new and neither is the debate over whether or discriminatory policy of inclusion. Japan implemented a law in 1940 that allows women "seirikyuuka" or physiological secretion menstruate. Other Asian countries followed.
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