Apple has finally added period tracking to its Health app, correcting a lacking feature that some had seen as a symptom of a broader “woman problem” at Apple.

The company launched the new app, intended to pull together health information from various sources, last year. But the ability to track a woman’s period was missing, until Apple updated the app at its Worldwide Developers Conference.

Some had said that the clear lack of such an obvious aspect of health tracking was a consequence of the lack of demographic diversity at Apple — that given the largely male make-up of the tech industry, such a metric may have been missed entirely. Though the feature could track many kinds of niche health data — like the amount of inhaler use, or “Peripheral Perfusion Index” — it couldn’t be used for reproductive health.

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