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A woman in her fifties may have spent decades building a career, raising a family, supporting ageing parents and developing the judgement organisations depend upon. Yet when her sleep becomes unpredictable, her concentration slips or her energy fluctuates, she can find herself in an unfamiliar world of supplements, specialist consultations, dietary programmes and conflicting advice.

World Menopause Day 2026 reminds us that women's health deserves serious attention. Its greater achievement will come when that attention translates into better care, fairer working conditions and the protection of the economic independence women have spent decades building.

There is a contradiction at the heart of the modern workplace. Organisations are investing in menopause awareness, introducing policies, training managers and encouraging women to speak more openly about their experiences. Yet some of the very women these policies are designed to support are still struggling to obtain timely medical advice, appropriate treatment and reasonable adjustments that would allow them to continue working effectively.

World Menopause Day, led globally by the International Menopause Society, has played an important role in bringing menopause out of the shadows and into public discourse. What if one of the biggest risks facing productivity, leadership succession and economic growth isn't AI, skills shortages or hybrid working, but a biological transition affecting millions of employees that many organisations still treat as a wellbeing issue? Yet for founders, board members, business lea

A woman wakes at 2:47am because she is hot. She throws off the duvet. Twenty minutes later she is cold. Her mind starts running through tomorrow’s presentation, her mother’s hospital appointment, the unresolved conversation with a direct report, the invoice she forgot to approve and whether those palpitations she experienced yesterday are something she ought to mention to her GP. Eventually she sleeps. At 5:45am, the alarm goes off. By 8:30 she is dressed, composed and lea

There is something wonderfully optimistic about September. Summer begins to retreat, schools return, diaries refill, Q4 suddenly stops looking comfortably distant and organisations rediscover all the meetings they apparently managed perfectly well without during August. Menopause, unfortunately, has no respect for the corporate calendar.

There is a particular kind of woman who can be awake at 3am, lead a difficult meeting at 9am and still convince everybody, including herself, that she is functioning perfectly well. She has spent decades becoming exceptionally good at carrying complexity. Career pressure, family responsibility, financial decisions, caring, deadlines and the invisible work of remembering what everybody else has forgotten have all been absorbed into a life that still appears remarkably well ma

What if your body has been trying to communicate with you all along? The real conversation about women's health is not just about illness. It is about awareness, education and empowerment. For many women, health is not simply a medical issue. It is deeply connected to identity, culture, family expectations, work pressures and the roles we are expected to perform every day.

Fibroids remain the leading cause of hysterectomy and Black women are estimated to be two to three times more likely to undergo surgery as a result. What appears to be a clinical endpoint is often shaped by a sequence of earlier missed opportunities, delayed recognition, limited intervention and constrained treatment pathways, which ultimately increase the likelihood of surgical menopause.