Two years after Utah lawmakers mandated that all public schools in the state provide students with free period products, students who use them are missing class less often and feeling more confident.
That’s according to a recent survey of Utah high schoolers conducted by The Period Project. Organizers behind the initiative, born out of Utah-based nonprofit The Policy Project, were instrumental in getting HB162 passed in 2022. Gov. Spencer Cox later expanded the requirement to include state buildings.
“The purpose of putting period products in schools was not to replace students’ main source of period products,” said Brooke Gledhill Wood, the Policy Project’s chief of staff, during a webinar last week about the survey, “but really to be there in times of emergency, or when they forgot products or started unexpectedly.”
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