Growing public conversations around menopause are shattering taboos. But they only help some women in the workplace.


Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics
Growing public conversations around menopause are shattering taboos. But they only help some women in the workplace.

Media reports documenting the pandemic’s impact on gender equality are inadvertently deflecting accountability.
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