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Women’s Equality Starts With Ending the Tampon Tax

PERIOD POVERTY

The “tampon tax” illustrates how deeply gendered legal structures such as the “neutral” tax system actually are.

Catarina de Albuquerque
Magdalena Sepúlveda
opinion
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Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
Catarina de Albuquerque

Catarina de Albuquerque

Magdalena Sepúlveda

Magdalena Sepúlveda

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