Table 4. Boys’ attitudes toward periods and period-related teasing based on menstrual knowledge, home environment, and friends’ period teasing.
| Reported period-teasing | Negative attitudes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Have teased girls about periods bin(0/1) | Appropriate if girls publicly discuss periods bin(0/1) | Periods should be hidden in school bin(0/1) | ||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | |
| Mean: | 0.184 | 0.184 | 0.184 | 0.184 | 0.206 | 0.531 |
| Menstrual knowledge score index continuous [0, 1] |
0.0152 | -0.0975 | 0.0387 | 0.0438 | -0.00429 | 0.160 |
| (0.13) | (-0.86) | (0.33) | (0.38) | (-0.03) | (0.97) | |
| Home restricts menstruating women binary (0/1) |
0.0974** | 0.100** | 0.0979** | 0.0459 | -0.00543 | |
| (2.25) | (2.38) | (2.31) | (0.98) | (-0.09) | ||
| Number of home activities restricted during menstruation count [0, 6] |
0.0502*** | 0.0463** | ||||
| (2.45) | ||||||
| Report any male friends have teased binary (0/1) |
0.212*** | -0.0156 | 0.00144 | |||
| (3.10) | (-0.26) | (0.02) | ||||
| Number of male friends who have teased count [0, 5] |
0.0985*** | |||||
| (3.35) | ||||||
| Observations | 314 | 353 | 310 | 314 | 328 | 325 |
Note: All columns report OLS coefficients. t statistics in parentheses.
* p < 0.10,
** p < 0.05,
*** p < 0.01.
Robust standard errors (Huber-White estimators). Dependent variables: The outcome in columns 1-4 is a binary variable that equals 1 if a boy reports that he has ever teased girls about periods. Outcome in column 5 is a binary indicator equalling 1 if a boy agrees that is appropriate/very appropriate for girls to discuss periods. Column 6 is a binary indicator equalling 1 if a boy agrees that periods are something to be hidden in school. Controls (not reported) are age and grade. School fixed effects included.