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07-04-2017, 03:34 PM
We can finally destroy the myth that having a period makes you less competent
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For way too long, people have played menstruation for laughs. These hilarious jokes usually come back to a familiar punch line: Women just can't function when they bleed.*
It's **t just a joke, either. That trope has been used by men and women alike to justify why we can't have nice things, including a female president. *
SEE ALSO: Yogi dressed in white powerfully defies period shame on Instagram (http://mashable.com/2017/02/11/yogi-dressed-in-white-defies-period-shame/)
But a new study published Tuesday in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience offers some quality research to destroy the myth of the woman turned incompetent by her period.*
The study (http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00120/abstract) took dozens of women and tested their cognitive abilities several times over the course of two consecutive menstrual cycles. The researchers found ** consistent associations between fluctuations to the women's hormones and their cognition.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/04/periods-women-science-competence-myth/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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For way too long, people have played menstruation for laughs. These hilarious jokes usually come back to a familiar punch line: Women just can't function when they bleed.*
It's **t just a joke, either. That trope has been used by men and women alike to justify why we can't have nice things, including a female president. *
SEE ALSO: Yogi dressed in white powerfully defies period shame on Instagram (http://mashable.com/2017/02/11/yogi-dressed-in-white-defies-period-shame/)
But a new study published Tuesday in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience offers some quality research to destroy the myth of the woman turned incompetent by her period.*
The study (http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00120/abstract) took dozens of women and tested their cognitive abilities several times over the course of two consecutive menstrual cycles. The researchers found ** consistent associations between fluctuations to the women's hormones and their cognition.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/04/periods-women-science-competence-myth/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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