NHS to offer “light duties” to menopausal women.

I’d usually be championing changes in the workplace that I,prove things for women. We need subsidised good quality wrap round childcare.
I’m concerned that the focus on the menopause suggests every woman needs special treatment, over a number of years. That’s like assuming every post natal mother will be in full mental health crisis.
Our experience of menopause is individual. We can see our GP and effective treatments are available. I appreciate things change as kittylester says. My worry is this can be used to put women down in the age old ‘dominated by hormones’ dismissal

I think its a sensible move for those who really really suffer badly.

Better than them leaving, or taking lots of time off sick, which does happen. I was lucky with the big M but others are not. I think we'll keep staff better that way, crucial in current climate.

I don’t think that because we had to ‘get on with it’ that our daughters and granddaughters should have to do likewise though.

A lot depends on how it is managed. It is possible that it could lead to resentment and be bad for women at a time when our rights are precarious, but in principle it could be a good thing. Allowing women with flooding periods to switch to duties that are not public-facing for a few days a month might be perfectly reasonable in retail, say; but would probably be less so in something like teaching. Where it can be done without obvious problems for colleagues I think it’s a step in the right direction.

What small busines will be able to afford to take on women. Time off for periods or menopause, pregnancy and childcare, talk of time off if your pet dies. When a person is away or on light duties who picks up the slack? These things are part of life, we took it in our stride, women generally live longer than men, who have to put up with things and suffer stress as a result.

Because times change?