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Global consensus recommendations on menopause in the workplace: A European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) position statement




List of AuthorsRees Margaret, Bitzer Johannes, Cano Antonio, Ceausu Iuliana, Chedraui Peter, Durmusoglu Fatih, Erkkola Risto, Geukes Marije, Godfrey Alan, Goulis Dimitrios G., Griffiths Amanda, Hardy Claire, Hickey Martha, Hirschberg Angelica Linden, Hunter Myra, Kiesel Ludwig, Jack Gavin, Lopes Patrice, Mishra Gita, Oosterhof Henk, Pines Amos, Riach Kathleen, Shufelt Chrisandra, van Trotsenburg Mick, Weiss Rachel, Lambrinoudaki Irene

PublisherELSEVIER IRELAND LTD

Publication year2021

JournalMaturitas

Journal name in sourceMATURITAS

Journal acronymMATURITAS

Volume number151

Start page55

End page62

Number of pages8

ISSN0378-5122

eISSN1873-4111

DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.06.006


Abstract

Introduction: Worldwide, there are 657 million women aged 45-59 and around half contribute to the labor force during their menopausal years. There is a diversity of experience of menopause in the workplace. It is shaped not only by menopausal symptoms and context but also by the workplace environment. It affects quality of life, engagement, performance, motivation and relations with employers.

Aim: To provide recommendations for employers, managers, healthcare professionals and women to make the workplace environment more menopause supportive, and to improve women's wellbeing and their ability to remain in work.

Materials and methods: Literature review and consensus of expert opinion.

Summary recommendations: Workplace health and wellbeing frameworks and policies should incorporate menopausal health as part of the wider context of gender and age equality and reproductive and post reproductive health. Workplaces should create an open, inclusive and supportive culture regarding menopause, involving, if available, occupational health professionals and human resource managers working together. Women should not be discriminated against, marginalized or dismissed because of menopausal symptoms. Health and allied health professionals should recognize that, for some women, menopausal symptoms can adversely affect the ability to work, which can lead to reduction of working hours, underemployment or unemployment, and consequently financial insecurity in later life.


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