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In the first-ever such legislation proposed in the country, the Karnataka government has readied the Karnataka Women Wellbeing Leave Bill, 2025, which provides menstrual leave not only for working women in the formal sector but also for female students in educational institutions, transgenders, ASHAs, anganwadi, and midday meal personnel, and those working in mines.

An earlier Government Order had covered the private sector, and last week the government brought its workers under its ambit. Instead of 18 as a minimum age criteria prescribed earlier, the Bill does not propose any lower minimum age limit, but the upper age limit has been capped at 52 or till menopause.

While the working women will get one day leave per month, the menstrual leave for students wi

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