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The OSIT Menopause Policy At some point in their life, the Menopause will affect all women. The symptoms for each woman vary but there is no doubt that the peri-menopause and the menopause have a significant impact on all areas of a woman’s life.

The OSiT Menopause Policy

At some point in their life, the Menopause will affect all women. The symptoms for each woman vary but there is no doubt that the peri-menopause and the menopause have a significant impact on all areas of a woman’s life.

One of those areas being work. Yet there is still a big stigma hanging over this subject and many workplaces still don’t have clear policies around how to support women in their team who are menopausal.

Here at OSiT we didn’t want that to be the case. After all, our workforce is more than 70% female.

Our lovely OSiTeer, Amelia Woolley has produced a Menopause Policy for us and is the face of an awareness campaign we have launched, “Let’s talk about the ‘M’ word”.

Facts about the Menopause

  1. In its simplest of terms, The Menopause is a hormonal inbalance, which causes a womans periods to stop.
  2. Typical symptoms of Peri Menopause and Menopause include anxiety, mood swings, brain fog, hot flushes, irregular periods, reduced libido, joint pain, low mood, and weight gain.
  3. Peri Menopause is when a woman experiences symptoms before her periods have stopped. A woman reaches Menopause when she hasn’t had a period for 12 months.
  4. It is estimated that there are around 13 million women in the UK who are currently Peri Menopausal or Menopausal. That is the equivalent of one third of the entire UK female population.
  5. The average age of a woman reaching Menopause in the UK is 51. But, roughly 1 in 100 women in the UK experience the Menopause before the age of 40.

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