{"id":1362,"date":"2026-05-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2026-07-03T00:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:18:48","slug":"nyc-must-deliver-on-menstrual-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/2026\/05\/28\/nyc-must-deliver-on-menstrual-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: NYC must deliver on menstrual equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;Gale Brewer&nbsp;and&nbsp;Laura Strausfeld<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OPINION: Today is\u00a0World Menstrual Hygiene Day\u00a0and while New York was once the national leader on menstrual equity, today many students still cannot count on finding a pad or tampon in a public-school bathroom when they need one. LINK: <a href=\"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2026\/05\/NYC-must-deliver-on-menstrual-equity.pdf\">NYC must deliver on menstrual equity<\/a> (NY Daily News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Gale Brewer&nbsp;and&nbsp;Laura Strausfeld<\/p>\n<p>OPINION: Today is\u00a0World Menstrual Hygiene Day\u00a0and while New York was once the national leader on menstrual equity, today many students still cannot count on finding a pad or tampon in a public-school bathroom when they need one. LINK: <a href=\"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2026\/05\/NYC-must-deliver-on-menstrual-equity.pdf\">NYC must deliver on menstrual equity<\/a> (NY Daily News)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oped","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}