Workplace support for menstruation and menopause
By 
Manisha Lalloo2025-05-20T13:30:00
The chemical industry and universities are doing more to give chemists what they need to manage their menstrual health
When Sofia Olendraru started her undergraduate chemistry course at the University of Oxford, UK, she found herself spending up to six hours in the lab with minimal breaks. ‘So if you get your period and you don’t have period products on you, you don’t have time to go out and buy some,’ she says. Those available in the bathrooms required a pound coin to purchase: ‘So I lobbied to get them for free.’