(UK) I took the day off work yesterday as I had a particularly heavy day, was feeling very tired, dizzy, just needed to rest. Used a day of my sick leave.
Some months I don't need to take much of a rest at all, and can keep working, other days, I need the time to rest and recover.
Seems reasonable, that's what sick days are for
Got me thinking how amazing it would be to have menstrual leave in the UK. I think it would normalise that periods affect women physically and mentally, and sometimes we aren't ok to carry on working.
Wait, don't only misogynists acknowledge that women can act different mentally on their periods? 
Yes, I know initially it would result in some organisation not hiring women. But, I do think that with enough time, the organisations that didn't offer menstrual leave or weren't hiring women would lose out. Likely due to gender discrimination anyways (as you can't just not hire women).
She acknowledges this would make women unemployable, but that's OK because laws will force companies to hire women lmao
Another pro of menstrual leave: My boss (male) has a habit of saying "hope you're ok? Is it stress, is there anything I can do?" which get quite awkward if it's related to gynae issues . If I just said I needed to take a day of menstrual leave, life would so much easier.
Anyways, that's my mini-rant for the day.
Yes, one menstrual leave please 
Much less awkward than taking a sick day.
The comments are somewhat reasonable, but most seem to focus on this making only making women appear to be less valuable than men in the workforce and not literally less valuable, lol. Also a few agreeing with the idea.
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Bruh, this happened to me last month. One of my reports asked to leave early because of her menstrual symptoms. Not sure where zoomers got the idea that this was normal
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If they are actually debilitating I get it, but at that point it should be a known disability that you knew before hiring. Asking for free days off for it is just insane lmao
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Yeah, that's what I told her, that if her she was too sick to come in, then that's a sick day and it will be counted as one.
I could just tell she was hoping I would give her some sort of break because it's a menstrual thing. Really annoyed me because I have 5 other young women who report to me who never ask for things like this.
Maybe their menstrual symptoms are bad too, but there's no reason that I should be aware of any of that.
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agreed 100%, shouldn't be putting you on the spot like that with such an odd request plus could send odd signals to the others. just say you're sick and need to leave lol
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