Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani opposed the idea of paid menstrual leaves for women. She said menstruation is not a handicap, while answering a question in the Rajya Sabha.
Join News9's Shweta Kothari, Neha Khanna, Preeti Agnihotri, Geeta Dutta, and Rituparna Chakraborty, Co-founder, TeamLease for more on this story. The power-packed panel of four women discuss about companies that offer period leaves, health-related issues that arise due to incessant period pain, economic aspect of offering such leaves by employers, and of course, their personal opinion.
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