Peak dignity
Oh look, the actual job advert for the “Period Dignity Officer” –
Job Description
(This post is funded through Period Dignity Partnership and will be hosted by Dundee and Angus College)
Period Dignity Regional Lead Officer
Regional Post (working with community partners Dundee & Angus College, Perth College, Dundee City Council and Angus Council)
35 hours per week / Fixed-Term to 1st August 2024
Salary: DA10, £33,153 – £36,126Working in partnership across the Tay Cities Region to aid in the implementation of the Period Product Act, this post aims to coordinate and streamline the approach to Period Dignity across Perth & Kinross, Dundee and Angus. The Lead Officer will provide outstanding project leadership and management for a range of activities, events, and outcomes. This will include engaging with staff, partners, communities and young people in developing and delivering a campaign that stretches across our regions, raising awareness and understanding of the Period Product Act and the expanse of work happening in our respective communities
It will include engaging with “young people.” Any particular kind of people besides young? Nope, just people.
Energy, enthusiasm and excellent interpersonal skills are needed, backed up with a qualification at degree level and a successful track record of engaging and empowering a large range of people from a diverse range of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, in particular young people who menstruate.
Ohhhhh there we go – young people who menstruate.
Experience of successful working with a wide range of stakeholders, to deliver project outcomes and enhanced opportunities for young people, clients or others is needed, coupled with evidence of devising and delivering marketing and promotional campaigns to reach various audiences.
Etc etc etc, yadda yadda yadda. No mention of girls or women; not one.
I will try again:
What really amazes me is the fact that humanity (~50% of which consists of women) has been able to survive all this evolutionary time (proceeding from some arbitrary point) without Period Dignity Partnerships; until now. How did our ancestors ever manage it? I am totally amazed by their achievement.!
That’s actually not the problem, or a problem, in my view. Menstruation is seen as disgusting and contaminating in many cultures, so working to de-stigmatize it is worth doing. But that’s a massive part of the reason it absolutely has to be women doing it. Hiring a man to do it just seems to underline the idea that women=pollution.