If you’re younger than 45 you can’t be peri-Menopausal.If you’re having mood swings and emotional outbursts you are a typical mad and hormonal woman.Periods get lighter at this time of a woman’s life.You’re not having a Menopause, if you don’t have hot flushes.Which leads us to some of the other assumptions around symptoms: We have no images for these women as its easier for most to make them invisible. Or as Freud would say ‘hysterical’ women, entirely unwelcome in the workplace. If a woman was in the 25% who didn’t experience any symptoms during her peri-Menopause then she can’t transition into the other 25% who experience extreme symptoms during her post-Menopause, and heaven forbid if a woman hangs out in the unspoken of 25% who struggle to make it though the day without medical, psychological, and emotional intervention, this group of outliers tends to be represented as bloody unreasonable. We assume that this is something that women in their fifties experience therefore it’s an older woman’s affliction - cue pictures of women in their sixties with a fan. The problem is that wherever the averages lead Pied Piper-like, our assumptions follow. On average 25% of women experience no symptoms, and 50% whilst experiencing some symptoms can manage them. On average women will experience their symptoms for eight years, and so it goes on. On average, women will experience their Menopause – 12 months after their last period – at the age of 51. It rubs out the pesky outliers and makes things easier to communicate and easier to digest. The media love averages because it makes life easy to understand, it looks at the core, the middle of the road where most of the statistics hang out. I would love to hear your feedback.Statisticians love averages, it comes with the territory.
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This is an opportunity to think about Menopause from a new perspective, to understand why we feel the way we do about it and how to break the stereotypes for good.You can connect with Kate below:Website: : : has 5 free copies of her book 'Your Second Phase: Reclaiming work and relationships during and after Menopause' to give away to the first 5 people who email her at you can buy a copy here of her book here Go download Kate's 5 easy steps to successful Menopause conversations at work here.Dive in and listen to this week’s episode and share with your community. This podcast will arm you with the awareness you need to take control, whether that’s at home or at work.At a time in life when many feel isolated and lost, we will discuss how to feel in control and powerful. Some will experience virtually no symptoms and others will be utterly devastated by them. In fact, every woman’s experience is as unique as her fingerprint. Realistically no woman wants to be represented in this way, it’s offensive. Menopause is incredibly variable which is one of the core issues.
If you google Menopausal woman, the images you are given are of women in their mid-60s and 70s, that’s 20 to 30 years older than the average age women start to experience symptoms. How our perception of Menopause is bound up in outdated and negative stereotypes and bias. She is an internationally published author, her book ‘Your Second Phase – reclaiming work and relationships during and after Menopause’ was shortlisted for the Business Book of the Year Award 2021.In this episode, Jo talks to Kate about. It also drives up employee engagement, staff retention and creates an inclusive and positive place to work.
This increases awareness of this life phase, its pivotal impact on equality across the workforce and representation in senior and executive positions.
She works with women and organisations to create simple strategies that enable modern and supportive Menopause conversations.
Kate Usher is an experienced Menopause Coach and Change Strategist with a specialism in gender equality.
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