‘It was traumatic’: The workplace taboo causing women to suffer in silence

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New research has found menopause is a taboo topic in the workplace, with a glaring lack of support for employees and their managers. | JewelTopsfield Menopause

Menopause typically occurs at about the age of 51, but symptoms – including fatigue, hot flushes, heavy bleeding, difficulty sleeping and concentrating and pain and anxiety – can begin years beforehand.Magdalena Dingas was working in an advertising firm in 2017 when menopausal symptoms “just hit me like a rock”.

When the symptoms were at their worst, she took a combination of annual leave and sick days. However, she believes a workplace policy that offered time off or more breaks may have helped. “It was so interesting to see the response, which polarised around a lot of women saying, ‘Oh, thank God’, and some women saying, ‘Oh, for God’s sake’, and then, largely a male response saying, ‘Suck it up princesses’,” Ms Crooks said.

 

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JewelTopsfield Now we've so many women journalists at all levels we've media outlets that once concentrated on big issues now defined by sex; fems are turning papers/tv networks into women's magazines/shows. Some women's issues are big but to see everything thru feminist lens or vagina wrong.

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