I feel a responsibility to talk about menopause, says Nicola Sturgeon

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First minister tells podcast that her discomfort talking publicly about the subject shows how far society has yet to go

, which explores the challenges in life for women over the age of 40, Scotland’s first minister admitted her own ambivalence about discussing the subject in public.

“And yet even talking about it like this, I am so far out of my comfort zone, in terms of the intensely personal nature of it. That tells me no matter how far we’ve come in this discussion, we still have a long way to go that somebody like me still feels kind of uncomfortable with it.” She told Baker that she had already had a conversation with her doctor about taking hormone replacement therapy, noting that her generation grew up reading – now discredited – scare stories about the treatment and asking: “How many women just suffered in silence and suffered unnecessarily because of that?”Asked how she might deal with a hot flush during a work meeting, she said: “I would like to think I would be open about it.

 

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