There are things we talk about when we talk about menopause. Hot flushes. Night sweats. The end of periods. A vague sense that life is shifting. And then there are the things we don't talk about. The ones that sit quietly underneath the surface, affecting millions of women every single day, but rarely making it into the conversation. One of the biggest? Work. Your career. Your performance. Your sense of capability and worth within a professional life you have spent years, may

When we talk about menopause as something that happens later in life, something you just manage or “get through”, and importantly, something women normally deal with in their 50s, we unintentionally alienate many women who are already experiencing symptoms in their 40s, and in some cases even earlier.