I think it comes back a lot to the opportunity costs, losing education and not being able to go to school.
I think we also have to think about health policies. We severely underfund women's health research, so you have people with endometriosis or other menstruation-related illnesses who have a period for three or four weeks. We're not talking about two or three days every now and again; we're talking about a chronic illness. The amount of work people are missing, the amount of school people are missing, the activities people are missing when they're out not feeling like they can fully participate because of that....
One in 10 women has endometriosis. There is a bunch of other related things that give people a hard time when they are menstruating. When we talk about periods, why people are missing these opportunities and why the economy gets tied up in that, we really need to be thinking about this as well.
Social corporations and enterprises in Canada have been huge supporters of Monthly Dignity. We fully exist off the donations from companies that are based in Canada, many of them run by women.