The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

BBC ^ | 3 March 2014 | Vibeke Venema

[csvset]

There's documentary film about him as well.

Menstural Man

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m presuming the CEO of Tampax already has a hit out on him.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

When I temped at Kimberly-Clark in Wisconsin years ago, I recall they had a department (all men) who designed tampons, etc. They called them Sanitary Engineers.

Good for this guy.

[PGR88]

The Indian government recently announced it would distribute subsidised sanitary products to poorer women.

Which means nothing will happen and nothing will change.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I saw another documentary about Communist Bulgaria where women were relating the horrors of taking care of their monthly needs under the Five Year Plan.

They’d have to queue up in long lines at the local pharmacy when a supply of pads finally arrived. Each woman got to buy one pack of ten.

Of course the central planners had not figured out that ten was not enough to get a typical woman through the month. So these women would don various disguises, re-enter the line and double-dip.

Getting their monthly supply was a full day’s work.

[Uncle Miltie]

A rags to riches story?

[StormEye]

"A school dropout from a poor family in southern India has revolutionised menstrual health ..."

Why can't American companies export their products for females to India? Doesn't India allow American products into their country? Seems like this would be a large market.

[Disambiguator]

Post of the day!

[martin_fierro]

[martin_fierro]

*snort*

[momtothree]

Is this article “cramping” your style? (yes... poor attempt at humor!)

[Dr. Sivana]

Why can't American companies export their products for females to India?

They do. The rural Indians cannot afford the price. The U.S. companies cannot afford to sell at the rural Indian price.

[csvset]

Nah, a humble guy, didn't use it to pad his wallet. D'oh.

A little music maestro !

Rags To Riches

Since they make their own pads, iPad would be an awesome name, eh?

[Excellence]

Because they are too expensive for these women to buy. That’s what got the guy going in the first place, was the cost.

[Black Agnes]

Cost was a big factor. The Indian women can barely afford to feed their families. Buying sanitary napkins, especially those with the added cost of being transported, would mean trading food budget monies for sanitary napkins.

[Bobalu]

Lol, you should be a comedy writer :-)

[a fool in paradise]

These results obviously could not be relied on. It was then that he decided to test the products on himself. "I became the man who wore a sanitary pad," he says.

[a fool in paradise]

The U.S. companies cannot afford to sell at the rural Indian price.

Outsource production to India. It works wonders for technical jobs.

[Defiant]

Seems like the big players got scared and got the Indian government to help them. Which is how it is everywhere.

[Buckeye McFrog]

One roll of toilet paper goes for close to a day’s wage in rural India.