Our thanks to Mary (61) for this. We’re going to hear ever more about the female menopsause, and how menopausal women need “support”. I can’t recall seeing anywhere exactly what this “support” might consist of, but you can be sure it will include fewer working hours, without a reduction in income – as usual, men are going to have to shoulder the burden of their less productive female collagues.
An extract:
Terri Eva’s symptoms are so bad that she has been on sick leave from her job in a children’s centre for the last six months.
“My symptoms mean that being at work, without any support, is like torture,” she said. “My joints are so painful that I can’t move without agony. My head is in such a muddle that I can’t keep two thoughts in it at the same time [J4MB emphasis] and the anxiety is so bad it wakes me up at night.”
Would you want to be a passenger in a plane piloted by a woman with these symptoms? Nor me. We could only hope that the co-pilot (a) wasn’t another menopausal woman, and (b) was “supportive”.
In all the pieces I’ve read on this subject, a number of things are notable by their absence:
- the possibility that women might use the menopause as the reason (or a reason) for doing something they want to do anyway, i.e. leave paid employment (usually an option facilitated by an employed male partner). Women are far more likely than men to either not engage in paid employment, or to work part-time, from the moment they leave f/t education. I refer the interested reader to Dr Catherine Hakim’s Preference Theory (2000).
- the possibility that women might fake the symptoms of the female menopause in order to get time off work or to leave paid employment.
- the male menopause or “penopause”, caused by a decline in men’s testosterone levels over time. Amazon sells many books on the subject, dating as far back as 1976 – here.
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