We can finally destroy the myth that having a period makes you less competent
 

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. *

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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 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...

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