Discover expert tips and tricks for mastering the art of period stain removal in our comprehensive guide. Tackle those stubborn stains with confidence and get back to enjoying life during your period.Read More

Discover the empowering ruling granting homemakers equal share of property rights, promoting gender equality and financial independence. Learn about the positive impact on homemakers' empowerment and how PhoenixPads supports their well-being throughout their transformative journey. Celebrate this milestone towards a more inclusive society where every individual's contributions are valued. Join us in advocating for equal rights and comfort, ensuring homemakers can focus on their aspirations and well-being without menstrual discomfort. PhoenixPads: Supporting homemakers, embracing empowerment.Read More

In this fast-paced generation, certain disorders are perceived emerging in the young population. Endometriosis is one such condition that is experienced by many women belonging to this young population.Read More

“Women are perceived as malfunctioning and their hormones [as] out of balance, rather than seeing the organization of society and work perceived in need of a transformation to demand less constant and disciplined productivity of a certain kind.” Earlier women weren’t allowed to work, now when they do, they are expected to work like men despite going through menstrual pain every month.Read More

Don’t we all wish that mental illness had evident physical symptoms like cold, flu, fever, or maybe red eyes, yellow nails, blue lips, pink earlobes, swollen ankles, and ache in the knee, probably similar more? Sadly, adverse mental health does not exhibit any clear symptoms that can be treated by a regular doctor. Today, the pain is deep, engraved, and blatantly settled in our hearts of the lives we all have lost to depression, self-hurt, self-harm, suicides, and intended accidents. As a community, we would like to come forth and discuss the matter up close and clearly with you all. Mental health is important.Read More

Misogyny is something that is exposed to us since our childhood and is continuously being propagated by men who are the only ones benefitting from it. This behaviour manifests early on when a person still in their teenage years is asked to "Man Up" or "Behave like a Girl" Roles are defined, emotions are restricted, and power is invested. It starts with a group of schoolboys deriving fun from touching and teasing their female peers and goes on to an older man raping or threatening his family members. Gender roles are solidified as these young boys make use of their misdirected masculinity and start enjoying privileges as if they have earned them. They feel entitled to their unrestricted mobility, freedom, huge opportunity pool, and mere existence in a male-dominated patriarchal society.Read More

Menstruation is an indication that a girl is physically capable of becoming pregnant. In the time of the monthly menstrual cycle, the body releases hormones from different parts of the body to control and prepare the body for pregnancy. This happens when every month one of the ovaries releases an egg, the process is called ovulation. A girl's body menstruates when ovulation takes place and the egg is unfertilized, this makes the lining of the uterus shed itself and seep out through the vagina. This whole process is called period or menstruation.Read More

Did you know that India, the land of diversity; filled with various regions, religions, castes, creeds, ideologies, beliefs, and notions as over 1.3 million people who sexuality identify themselves from LGBTQ+ community? As a country, it is true that we fall together and apart almost every other day. Today, we believe that as a community, one thing that we have never willingly accepted as humans is a possibility of change in human sexuality. Why do men have to act like a man and women have to act like a woman? Why are we taught that men will be men and women will be, well, mere reproductive systems? We have been following this mindlessly even when we are the country that gave the world the ancient Indian text Kamasutra with a complete chapter solely dedicated to the erotic homosexual behavior. Indeed our mind works weird. We are unwilling to accept what already has been in our country everRead More

One size for all is a great tag line to endorse condoms, not sanitary pads. Just like how each individual is different, their individuality along with their body is also different. In much simpler terms, there is a reason why we make different sizes of sanitary napkins for you.Read More

Imagine dealing with a disease with no cure! Along with having spent years without being diagnosed of it, and finding out about it when it has only gotten worse. On addition to it, imagine dealing with snide insensitive remarks for enduring symptoms and changes that you just can’t control. PCOD is a culmination of the aforementioned terrible things and more! A nightmare that doesn’t go away when the sun rises.Read More

We’re in the year 2020, and we’ve made such massive progress in technology and globalization and yet have failed the fight against gender discrimination. We are holding on to this regressive practice and keeping it safe behind stereotypes, which is eventually keeping us away from the truth. Gender discrimination is evident not just in real lives but also in the reel lives around us.Read More

It is true that we, as women, are never fully aware of our bodies. We aren’t even aware of what are the basic hygiene measures! Nobody wants to talk about your sufferings behind the bathroom door, right? How else were we supposed to know about things and measures and precautions and treatments when the internet wasn’t alive? It is because periods, menstruation, dates, or mahavari are considered dirty and impure, women feel uncomfortable discussing the issues; itching, dryness, and similar problems that they usually face.Read More

Menstrual hygiene is still a taboo – which comes with sanitary pads being smuggled in black polythene bags. Women are unaware of the intricacies of their own body, which is why the intimate hygiene market is flooded with products that are, largely, not designed keeping in mind the challenges – both physical and practical – that women face. Sanitary napkins are the most promptly accessible and easy to use menstrual hygiene products, and yet the big players in the market have not come up with innovations which are of value to women. This is where Phoenix Pads comes into the picture.Read More

Not every woman suffers from bloat or food cravings during her period, but just about every woman has at least one embarrassing story about the time her period leaked. If it was a public leak, the story is probably even more memorable than a typical leak sprung while sleeping. The trickle of blood down your pant leg, ruining your clothes with a noticeable stain, drawing unwanted attention, the feeling that everyone is staring at you, and no exit strategy. A nightmare, isn't it?Read More

Domestic violence is, unfortunately, a terrible reality, even in 2020. Sanya writes a horrifying account about her friend that underwent domestic violence and describes her journey to fight against it. She narrates about how her friend has not only been ill-treated by her husband, but also by society for standing up for herself.Read More

The streets of the national capital, on the cruel, dark night of December 16, 2012, must have wept from shame and terror upon witnessing the dreadful incident that seared India’s soul and left us trembling. A 23-year-old woman, fell prey to a vicious assault by six barbaric, sadistic monsters, including a juvenile. She was brutally dragged and gang-raped repeatedly. When she resisted and tried to fight back, an iron rod was inserted into her genitalia, mangling her intestines and ripping her sheer soul apart.Read More

India is home to over 355 million women, but less than 12% of them have access to sanitary hygiene products. Millions of women like Anita suffer every day from 'period poverty' – a lack of access to menstrual education and sanitary products. The main reason stated for this is low-income levels, coupled with strong taboos associated with conversations about menstruation. From our place of privilege, it can sometimes be difficult to imagine just how gruesome the situation is.Read More

You and your partner finally get into that hot new restaurant and it’s as fabulous as you heard. But after the two of you order, you partner whips out his phone to take a photo of your craft cocktails and shares it on Instagram. Then, he absent-mindedly begins scrolling.Read More

Flustered with the work I was preoccupied with, I hear the phone ring; a call from a landline number from Chennai. As I pick up, I hear a gracious woman speak to me in calculated words, “Hello Surmai, I’ve been meaning to call you, but have been travelling. I found your email in my inbox, which I knew I had to follow up with a call. We have gone through your profile. I’m aware that Mahindra is a huge name in CSR, and I’m sure you’re doing a great job making all these wonderful things happen for the group in the social space. I want to personally invite you to be a part of the International Antarctic Expedition.”Read More