Please allow women’s menstrual cycles to be a valid work excuse. Many women, including myself, experience extremely painful cramps, as well as weakness and dizziness from losing blood. I have even lost consciousness from this multiple times, yet it’s not a valid excuse? Some of us suffer so much and are still expected to work, even medication doesn’t help sometimes. I am tired of feeling embarrassed or as though it won’t be taken seriously if and when I have to miss work because of this.
Perhaps this should be a valid work excuse or we should be able to miss work the first 2 days of our cycle. Most of us don’t need the full time but the first 2 days are excruciating. Either way would help tremendously!