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Open-source menopause policy

At the end of last year, I was described as ‘rare as unicorn tears’. Ok, maybe it wasn’t about me specifically, but it was how Jane Evans (founder of Uninvisibility and co-author of “Invisible to Invaluable. Unleashing the Power of Midlife Women”) described the devastatingly low number of women over 50 in our industry.

It begs the question of why everyone is working so hard to bring young women into the industry, and then spectacularly failing them every step of the way. Until eventually, around the time of the menopause, they just give up to plough their own furrow, because they’ve just had enough of the apathy, ignorance, and incompassion. 

This isn’t just an assertion of desertion, it’s a validated fact of the matter, and most clearly summarised in a startling piece of research that Bloomberg undertook in 2019 and released last year, showing that over 900,000 women left their jobs ‘as a result of menopausal symptoms.’ 

This isn’t down to women getting a bit hot and flustered in...

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