entity Updated 2026-07-15 Tags: Founder, Consumer-Products, Japan, Gender

板井太子

板井太子 is presented in 175.女性卫生用品的社会史:比想象中更精彩! as the young woman founder behind [[AnneSanitaryNapkin|安妮卫生巾]]. The episode says she moved from a household invention service toward sanitary pads after recognizing that the real problem was not a toilet accessory but the continuing use of absorbent cotton by millions of menstruating women.

Her role gives the source its clearest Female Self-Possession and product-design case. Because she had used Kotex / 高洁丝 and understood Japanese women’s fit, comfort, smell, disposal, body-line, and embarrassment constraints, the company built trial feedback, multiple sizes, quiet packaging, portable wrappers, and bright brand language into the product.

Connections

  • [[AnneSanitaryNapkin|安妮卫生巾]] - company and product she led.
  • [[MoriBuichi|森布一]], [[DuJiyan|杜继彦]], and [[MitsumiElectric|三美电机]] - financing, public relations, and corporate support context.
  • Commercial Menstrual Education and Packaging As Product Experience - mechanisms through which her product changed adoption.
  • Menstrual Stigma - social condition the product had to work around and weaken.