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India’s female civil servants are being told to provide details of their menstrual cycles in a new job appraisal form.<\/p>\n

Women in India’s sprawling bureaucracy have been angered by the new form sent out this year which asks, among questions about their goals and skills, “when was your last menstrual period?” and “give details of your menstrual history”.
[read more on Guardian<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks Madman<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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India’s female civil servants are being told to provide details of their menstrual cycles in a new job appraisal form. Women in India’s sprawling bureaucracy have been angered by the new form sent out this year which asks, among questions about their goals and skills, “when was your last menstrual period?” and “give details of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Suman Kumar","author_link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/author\/suman-kumar\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"India’s female civil servants are being told to provide details of their menstrual cycles in a new job appraisal form. 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