Claim: One in four girls or women are in period poverty and are unable to afford sanitary products.
Fact-check: Period poverty: how widespread is it? - Full Fact
Verdict: 27% of women asked by a survey in england, scotland and wales said this was the case. but the survey wasn't designed to be representative so it can't tell us about the wider population. other representative surveys have found the number is around one in ten.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2019-03-08T00:00:00