Menopause: an OH issue?

Workplace health issues for women experiencing menopause

Summary:

Amanda Griffiths considers the OH issues for women experiencing menopause and presents key findings from the first large-scale UK workplace study of women and their experience of menopausal transition and its impact at work.

WOMEN comprise almost half of the UK workforce. With regard to older women, a combination of age and gender discrimination has been suggested to explain why, until recently, few studies have explored …     

Amanda Griffiths is Professor of Occupational Health Psychology at the University of Nottingham.

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Tags anxiety depression oh policies pregnancy, menopause and reproductive health stress

Occupational Health at Work April/May 2014 (vol. 10/6) pp15-17

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