#TIME OUT FOR WOMEN 2021 PROFESSIONAL#

Survey research from Wales TUC in 2017 showed that nearly 85 per cent of respondents felt that the menopause impacted their working lives. Women can experience perimenopause and early menopause at much younger ages.Ĥ. However, we know that symptoms of the menopause can start earlier and continue for some time once menstruation has ceased. Women aged 50 and over are 14 per cent of the total workforce in the UK and 30 per cent of the female workforce. The average age of those experiencing menopause is early 50s.

Period poverty is a key issue – a 2017 Plan International report found that one in ten girls and women in the UK said they had been unable to afford period protection, while one in seven said they had struggled to afford it. Nearly two thirds felt that a key thing employers could do is normalise conversations around menstruation.

#TIME OUT FOR WOMEN 2021 PROFESSIONAL#

A third of survey respondents felt it was seen as more professional to not discuss menstruation in the workplace and 27% did not feel supported by their employer when it came to periods and the workplace. Bloody Good Period research regarding menstruation in the workplace found that discussing periods in the workplace still has a lot of stigma attached to it, and support from employers is lacking. Menstruation and menopause are workplace issues.ġ.

Time out for women 2021