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.
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.