Should Women Get “Menstrual Leave”?

Yes please, I feel like someone is crushing my ovaries with a nutcracker.

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Today, I had to go out and do some reporting on the Indian elections, despite the fact that I had just got my period and felt like there was a pixie in my uterus with a pick-axe, mining for gold. For a long time, I have known that Murphy’s law applies to my periods, meaning that…