Menopause happens when your periods stop due to lower hormone levels. Menopause symptoms can have a significant impact on a woman’s life. 50% of women aged 40 to 60 are unable to go into work at some point due to menopause symptoms.
Menopause will affect every woman at some point in their lives. Symptoms can have a significant impact, with GOV.UK finding that almost 70% of women aged 40 to 60 who are in employment and experiencing menopausal symptoms reporting this having a negative effect on their work, and just over 50% unable to go into work at some point due to their menopause symptoms.
The new statistics come as journalist and women’s equality campaigner, Mariella Frostrup, has been appointed as the government’s new Menopause Employment Ambassador, alongside measures in the Employment Rights Bill requiring large employers to develop plans on how they will support employees through the menopause. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said: “If we are going to get our country growing again, we have to make sure that everyone feels they can thrive at work. I know from personal experience how hard it can be for women going through menopause.
” What is the menopause? Menopause happens when your periods stop due to lower hormone levels, it usually occurs during the ages of 45 and 55, but can happen at an earlier age. Other reasons for the menopause include surgery to remove the ovaries called a oophorectomy, or the uterus, called a hysterectomy. Some women will also.