Objective <p>This study aimed to examine the association between age and menstrual hygiene practices of the domestic workers of Kolkata.</p> Methods <p>Data were collected from 300 women domestic workers belonging to their reproductive age (15 to 44 years), residing in Kolkata and working as domestic workers. For the analysis of the collected data, the participants were classified into four age-groups − 15–19 years, 20–24 years, 25–29 years and 30–44 years. Correspondence Analysis (CA) was employed to examine interdependent associations between the age-groups and their menstrual hygiene practices.</p> Results <p>Sanitary pad is mostly used by the older women i.e. age-group 30–44 years (0.389) and 24–29 years (0.584), whereas the younger women of aged between 15 and 19 and 20–24 years prefer to use old cloth pieces as menstrual absorbents. The age-group 30–44 years are the only women who change their absorbents frequently i.e. more than 3 times a day (0.623) and also practice safe method of absorbent disposal (0.586) amongst the all groups. The youngest women amongst the study participants i.e. age-group 15–19 years (0.682) are found to be more frequently washing hands with soap after changing absorbents and to clean external genitalia satisfactorily compared to the other groups.</p> Conclusion <p>Age appears to be an important factor for menstrual hygiene practices. Older women maintain good hygiene and employ modern means of hygienic methods, presumably which are learned through experience and everyday situation as they go out for work. The results of this study nevertheless call for targeted awareness-raising programmes to improving menstrual hygiene practices particularly among the younger generation.</p>