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Practice Listening: Summarize Spoken Text ID: #38466 Medium VAT
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In France, actually, until five years ago, I think Mathilde, maybe you could correct me, the hygiene products were taxed with VAT that was the equivalent of luxury products. So women had to pay more, because our tampons were taxed as a luxury product. And I think this is what is needed at the global scale is to provide girls and women with a choice of non polluting products that they use every month. And then also for this to work, it needs to be a topic that is no longer taboo, and it is still culturally, politically, socially, very taboo. So personally, I went on a campaign now to openly speak about my periods, to not hide it when I am on my period and to also openly discuss the different options that I have don't have, especially when one does fieldwork, because that's a whole other area of research. How do women manage the periods when they do fieldwork in places where there's not even access to clean water? It's a fascinating topic. And I'm glad that this person asked it to make it more of a public discussion.
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