Interesting article about menopause & the workplace

kmakm
kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
edited July 2018 in Day to day
https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-silent-career-killer-for-women-20180716-p4zrpk.html

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  • primek
    primek Member Posts: 5,392 ✭
    edited July 2018
    A great read. Most  of the workforce I'm in...finding some estrogen is a struggle. We are all around same age. Haha. And I have fans hidden in bags and office trays. I actually bought a desk fan for one colleague as she was always hot. Haha. 
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,961 ✭
    What's really interesting about the article is that it exists at all.  Menopause is still considered to be a taboo subject or at least an embarrassing one (much like menstruation, really, but worse).  I'm fortunate in that my line manager is a woman of 70 and went through some tricky times with menopause herself - and she's not backward in talking about it.
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
    @Sister I've made a deliberate choice to talk about it openly as a result of the prevalent hush hush attitude. I'm going to 'be the change' in more ways than one.
  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
    Just watching a segment about it on the Today Show. Quite interesting. 

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