Although it may seem completely random and very unpredictable at times, all women have a menstrual cycle that works around a 28 day period… no pun intended. However, men also have a hormonal schedule; with their testosterone peaking in the morning and settling down at night. Unfortunately for us women, the average 9-5 workday follows this hormonal peak; a work day that both women and men endure despite our vastly different cycles. A woman’s cycle is deemed inconvenient and a burden to a certain week of our month. And while yes, this is partly because of the pain, headaches, backaches, aggravation, and emotions that come along with it, it is also because our hormonal cycle is completely overlooked in the work place. As long as the average working day has been around, women have been told to suck it up… so what if it was the other way around? What if the standard work day, week, and month, followed not a 9am to 5pm testosterone spike, but instead, a 28 day cycle perfectly accustomed to the females hormonal processes.
The average workday was built by men, for men. The change to sexism could very well start by changing this average workday, especially since so many more women work now than they used. If women followed a different schedule than men did, we might become more productive, efficient, and less effected by our unlucky hormonal cycle.