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Putting the men into menstruation: the role of men and boys in community menstrual hygiene management

Murat Sahin, Murat Sahin, Thérèse Mahon, Thérèse Mahon, Anjali Tripathy, Anjali Tripathy, Neelam Singh, Neelam Singh·2015·Waterlines
DOI 10.3362/1756-3488.2015.002
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This paper examines how men and boys have an essential role in effective menstrual hygiene programmes and describes an initiative to engage men and boys in Uttar Pradesh, India. Cultural norms around menstruation are rooted in gender inequality and compromise women's ability to manage menstruation hygienically and with dignity. While there has been significant progress in developing comprehensive approaches to menstrual hygiene management (MHM), the role of men and boys in supporting menstrual hygiene has been lacking. In India, WaterAid and Vatsalya have targeted men and boys to address this gap in a programme that started in December 2011. Groups of men and boys were established and sensitized. Male teachers and masons were also trained to provide MHM services in school. Regular monitoring of software and hardware components, focus group discussions with male and female community members, and analysis of attendance registers has been undertaken to assess the emerging outcomes of the programme. As a result of the initiative, men and boys have begun to talk about menstruation more freely and are better able to support the MHM needs of women and girls within the household, community, and school.

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  • Boy students report having little understanding about menstruation, and some tease and bully girls because they do not understand girls' behaviors during menstruation.

    “Further contributing to unsupportive social environments at school, boy students report having little understanding about menstruation, and some tease and bully girls because they do not understand girls’ behaviors during menstruation [28–30].”

    From A Time for Global Action: Addressing Girls’ Menstrual Hygiene Management Needs in Schools (2016) · cites this paper as [28]

  • Many school systems have a predominance of male administrators and teachers, who may be unaware of or reluctant to talk about the challenges that schoolgirls and female teachers are facing.

    “Many school systems have a predominance of male administrators and teachers, who may be unaware of or reluctant to talk about the challenges that schoolgirls and female teachers are facing [28].”

    From A Time for Global Action: Addressing Girls’ Menstrual Hygiene Management Needs in Schools (2016) · cites this paper as [28]

  • Concerns connected to psychosocial support, agency, gendered environments, the role of men and boys, and social norms persist even if menstrual management needs are met.

    “Concerns connected to psychosocial support, agency, gendered environments, the role of men and boys, and social norms persist even if menstrual management needs are met [44, 45, 71].”

    From ’It’s like a burden on the head’: Redefining adequate menstrual hygiene management throughout women’s varied life stages in Odisha, India. (2019) · cites this paper as [71]

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Authors
Murat Sahin, M. S., Thérèse Mahon, T. M., Anjali Tripathy, A. T., & Neelam Singh, N. S.
Venue
Waterlines
Publisher
Practical Action Publishing
Published
2015-01-01
Volume
34
Issue
1
Pages
7-14
ISSN
  • 0262-8104 (ISSN-L)
  • 1756-3488
DOI
10.3362/1756-3488.2015.002
OpenAlex
W2104451010
Cited by
85
References
3
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2
FWCI
2.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Waterlines (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Menstrual Health and Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies and Social Issues
  • Social Sciences › Education › Gender, Education, and Development Issues
Keywords
menstrual hygiene management, men and boys, gender inequality, community participation, male role models, menstrual health education, WaterAid, Uttar Pradesh

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