Employers are realizing that being 'menopause friendly' helps retain experienced women in the workforce, as evidence shows that menopause symptoms hurt productivity and cause women to leave their jobs. A movement to make workplaces 'menopause friendly':
From left, Omisade Burney-Scott, Stacy London and Dr. Sharon Malone at a networking club gathering in Manhattan to screen a documentary and talk about menopause on April 28, 2023.
More than 50 British organizations, including HSBC UK, Unilever UK, and the soccer club West Ham United, are now are certified as “menopause-friendly” though an accreditation developed by Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace, a British professional training firm. One recent poll estimated that 3 in 10 workplaces in Britain now have some kind of menopause policy in place. There is even an awards ceremony, held in London, for the most menopause-friendly companies.
And employers are realizing that offering help is a way to retain experienced women in the workforce, as more evidence shows that menopause symptoms are hurting productivity and causing women to leave or consider leaving their jobs. It also helps to appoint “menopause champions” — employees willing to talk about menopause and help women find support, she said; the higher they are in the company’s ranks, the better. “When an organization demonstrates through its senior leaders that this is something important and they take it seriously, that gives everybody permission to talk about it,” she said.
There are an estimated 34 symptoms of the menopause transition, and often, symptoms hit just as women are rising to higher levels at work, adding an additional challenge to the hurdles of ageism and sexism already present in many workplaces. Sachs was one of about 80 women attending a screening in late April of a new documentary about Judy Blume — the author whose 1970 novel “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” broke barriers with its frank discussion of menstruation — followed by a panel called “Menopause Needs Our Margaret.
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