Some people just don't enjoy crushed nuts on top of their ice cream. XD

@OP I don't have an issue with employees paid sick leave / sick days off as long as there are things in place to counter abuse of the system. If women get one more day a month with more flexible rules I say if it's proven good for productivity then all the better.

I recognise there are differences physically as well as medically between men and women. The argument "but dey get more than we do" doesn't really apply here unless you've got a medical condition which impacts your ability to work one day every month like clockwork.

I'm pretty sure this is a non-issue, especially for we customers who have nothing to fear from what goes on in behind the curtain if it doesn't directly impact the product provided to us.

but it does

Yep makes stuff better

Happier and healthier staff work better and more productively, and as an added bonus Misogynistic snowflakes like the OP leave the community improving that as well.

Its a WIN WIN

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Pick up a history book or talk to older women of how nice patriarchy was (still are to a great deal) to women in the good old days. :D

I'm a man, I'm in favor of this and this should be considered bare minimum. Completely speechless how someone can be bothered by this..

Trust me dude, you don't wanna be around them when it's that time of month.

Yes.
The idea is, that the worker can be in a state that he can't do his work or where he will do to many mistakes so it is better to give him a day to rest to come back with full power.
And if it is an illness, that can spread, like a normal seasonal flue. It can be better if the worker stays at home so NOT all of his coworkers are ill within days.

Give ill workers payed days off is an economic decision too, because it will save you money in the long run...

Parents are allowed to stay at home when their children under a certain age are ill too. Because those children need care.

I know, all this must sound very strange for somebody from the land of the free...
Well, it is what you get when workers stay together for their rights and not only believe in "I can do it when I just work hard enough" (what is a lie to begin with).

And even if you have to bring a doctors note.
If you tell a doc, that you can't work because of something more serious, they usually will give out a note.
And at last in germany most docs will send you to rest for at last 3 days or until the next weekend.
So companies who not want a doctors note at day one do hope, that for some things resting one day is enough and that their workers do got enough personal bindings to their coworkers, so they don't overdo it.

Sorry, we, at the other side of the ocean, can't do much about you living in a country with 3rd world social care system your ancestors have chosen out of their free will.

I guess when you have nothing really to moan about, you go looking for some...