Yesterday’s New York Times ran a story about how migrants rushing to cross Europe, though resourceful and adaptable, are facing a new threat they can’t evade: winter. But there is another thing that the girls and women among the migrants cannot avoid, and that is their monthly menstruation. Few among us would grab extra underwear and sanitary pads […]
Author: Marni Sommer
Marni Sommer is an associate professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and a public voices fellow with The OpEd Project. She has conducted research with girls on menstruation in Tanzania, Ghana, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Pakistan, and publishes books for girls in low-income countries about puberty and menstruation.