Table 1.

Four facets of blood work undertaken by menstruating employees.

Facets of Blood Work	Examples
Managing workload	Difficulty with pain and managing teaching during first few days of menstruation, inflexible attendance expectations and presenteeism, managing performance targets
Managing the leaky, messy, painful body	Fatigue, leakage of menstrual blood on clothes and chairs, working through pain
Managing stigma	Shame, concealment of menstruation/purposeful discussion of menstruation to challenge stigma, fear of detection e.g., smell, fear of being laughed at
Managing (lack of) access to facilities	Insufficient toilet facilities (especially accessible from teaching spaces), lack of private access to toilets/disposal bins, no universal provision of menstrual products, arrangement of teaching spaces e.g., where staff member is surrounded by students who may detect menstruation (leakage/odour)