You have the power to create more inclusive, gender equitable spaces at your workplace!
Follow these steps to join the global initiative, become Period Positive, and gain access to a curated toolkit to improve menstrual equity.
To help you get started on your certification, view our Implementation Guide for step-by-step support to meet the three program requirements.
First:
Work with your office administrator and/or team to make your workplace Period Positive. Implement the following three practices at your workplace:
Provide Period Products
Keep period products in (or near) every bathroom used by people who menstruate in your organization or workplace. Period products should be free when possible. Workplaces may also provide subsidized or for-purchase period products. Ensure that the location of products is well known and accessible.
Ensure WASH Facilities
Check that each bathroom at your workplace meets WHO’s Global Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene (WASH) standards by ensuring each bathroom has clean water, toilet paper, soap/sanitizer, and a waste bin. Many bathrooms may already meet this standard.
Notify Employees
Inform employees via a formal notice (e.g., sending an email, announcing it at a staff meeting, updating your employee benefits or HR handbook, etc.) that period products are and will continue to be provided.
Organizations can use this sample language to copy and paste into the employee benefits or HR handbook.
Second:
Fill out the Request Certification form.
You will receive Period Positive Workplace Certification within 1-2 weeks. If we need more information to grant Period Positive Workplace Certification, you will be notified over email.
Third:
Utilize the Period Positive Workplace Partner Package that will be sent to your email.
All company leadership and employees are encouraged to attend one "Gender Equality & Menstrual Health" webinar included in the package. These 30-minute webinars are hosted by The Policy Project and Days for Girls, exclusively for new Period Positive Workplaces.
Sample language to include in your benefits plan or policy:
Access to menstrual products in or near every bathroom used by women who menstruate in our organization or workplace, and their location is well-known and accessible. Below are the following options for providing menstrual products, please list here which benefit you will provide.
Option 1: Provide free period products
Option 2: Provide subsidized period products
Option 3: Provide for-purchase period products.
Each bathroom at our work meets the WHO’s Global Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene (WASH) standards by ensuring each bathroom has clean water, toilet paper, soap/sanitizer, and a waste bin.