活动人士称,取消卫生巾税解决了女孩接受教育的一个最大障碍。由于缺少卫生用品,再加上学校缺少卫生间,不少女生经期都羞于出门,无法上学。
Periods are among the leading factors for girls to drop out of school in India, where four out of five women and girls are estimated by campaigners to have no access to sanitary pads.
经期不方便成为印度女孩辍学的主要因素之一。印度一些女性权益保护团体估算,印度全国大约80%的女性经期没有卫生巾可用。
Last year, lawmaker Sushmita Dev launched a petition to demand a reduction or total removal of taxes on pads, citing that about 70 percent of women in India could not afford them.
去年,议员苏什米塔-德夫发起请愿,呼吁政府减免卫生巾税,称印度有70%的女性买不起卫生巾。
The online petition gained more than 400,000 signatures.
这次网上请愿征得超过40万个签名。
Dev thanked all her supporters in a tweet on Saturday, and also criticized the government for taking more than a year to remove the tax on sanitary pads.
倡导者德夫在周六的一条推文中感谢所有支持者,并批评政府花了一年多的时间才取消了这一税收。
很多人将取消卫生巾税与印度电影《护垫侠》联系在了一起。
Bollywood’s first film on menstrual hygiene ‘Padman’, starring Akshay Kumar – one of Hindi cinema’s most popular action heroes – triggered debate over the taboo subject of menstrual hygiene in India after its release earlier this year.
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