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That glance back at the seat while standing, every woman knows it. Urban or rural, it doesn't matter. She has learned to move through her day so that her period remains invisible to everyone but her.

Menstrual shame isn't just personal. It is structural. Decades of taboo quietly determine what becomes speakable and what remains unseen. This is what invisible power does, it works not by forcing silence, but by making silence feel like the natural order of things. It is power that has moved inside - into beliefs, into habits, into a sense of what is normal and what is not worth asking for.

She learns to manage. And when no one complains, it could be easy to assume that fixing WASH infrastructure like the toilets, the water, the privacy, is the end of the responsibility.

In the month of Menstrual Hygiene Management Day, the Centre for Inclusive WASH's course on Gender-Inclusive WASH asks: how does your programme framework recognise invisible norms, power, and exclusion before they shape interventions on the ground?

Explore: https://centreforinclusivewash.org/courses/gender-inclusive-sanitation/

Image Credit: Sora Shimazaki, Unsplash.

We are hiring! CREA is looking for an Archivist & Knowledge Documentation Coordinator.

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