Tag - menopause in the workplace

Finally, the US is starting to make some headway in supporting midlife women. Kudos to Reps. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, and David McKinley, R-W.Va., who have introduced a bipartisan bill in Congress called The Menopause Research Bill, which will according to a West Virginia press release, “jumpstart research into finding new treatments for symptoms caused by …

Worldwide, there are 657 million women aged 45–59 and around half of them are in the workforce during their menopausal years.  Stated another way, half of the people in the workforce are women, and half of the women in the workforce are in perimenopause or menopause. There are laws and policies for women who are …