This refers to the column of Inez Ponce de Leon ('Leave with pay and understanding' 3/29/23), where she claimed my comment about a proposed paid menstrual leave supposedly represents a 'culture of unfounded expectations'—after echoing the lines of online bashers lumping me together with 'menstrual leave opponents around the world.' While I am gratified that my concerns have triggered a debate on the merits of the proposed measure, online bashing by trolls notwithstanding, I am setting the record straight on some aspects of her column, and sharing the basis of my earlier opinion on the subject bill: First, no less than the Philippine Statistics Authority's 2021 List of Establishments notes that about 99.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/162137/lacson-empowering-women-goes-beyond-menstrual-leaves

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