Assertion Partly supported AI assessment confidence: 90% certainty 4/5 debate potential 1/5

Coder: 86% of women get unexpected periods in public; 64% leave work

Claire Coder · #96 A Test of Time · Mar 4, 2025 · at 2:43

Aunt Flow founder Claire Coder pitches her menstrual product enterprise solution to investors on The Pitch.

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“Myself, I've experienced something that 86% of women have as well, and that's getting my period unexpectedly in public, and there are three options to handle that situation. One is just like 64% of women, they leave work or what they're doing immediately.”

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The claim, plainly

86% of women experience getting their period unexpectedly in public, and 64% leave work or their activity immediately when it happens.

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Assessment

The claim bundles two separate statistical assertions derived from menstrual health survey research. The first assertion is accurate: the August 2013 Harris Interactive national survey conducted for the Free The Tampons Foundation found that 86% of U.S. women aged 18–54 experienced starting their period unexpectedly in public without supplies. However, the second assertion (that 64% leave work or their activity immediately) is unsupported by the underlying survey, which found that 34% went home immediately to get supplies and 62% went to a store immediately to buy supplies. The 64% figure appears to conflate these findings with unrelated studies, such as the 2019 St. Louis study finding 64% of low-income women unable to afford menstrual products or 2017 data on students missing school.

Harris Interactive / Free The Tampons August 2013 survey found that 86% of U.S. women aged 18–54 started their period unexpectedly in public without supplies.
The 2013 Free The Tampons survey found that 34% of respondents went home immediately to get supplies and 62% went to a store immediately, rather than 64% leaving work or activity.
The 64% metric is associated in literature with the 2019 St. Louis period poverty affordability study (64% unable to afford supplies) and 2017 Plan International UK data (64% missing school).

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[1] freethetampons.org [2] scribd.com [3] freethetampons.org [4] facebook.com [5] facebook.com [6] facebook.com [7] snacknation.com [8] podit.fi

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